Open source maintainers of major projects (hi) are not ready to accept and talk about how the cultural insistence on permissive licensing is just straight up labor exploitation taking advantage of our addiction to popularity (also hi).

We’re doing this to ourselves too, you know.

Unlike regular labor exploitation, where there’s really not much of a choice at all because you have to be part of the labor force to get any income and survive at all…

We’re literally doing this shit for free, people. What’s your excuse?

@zkat I like working for companies that are into open source because I can reuse code between future projects. With closed source I lose all my code if I switch roles. 🤷

Then again I haven't made any hugely popular libraries and have low maintenance costs.