Individual developers spend their free time developing a solution without making as much as a cent, while giant corporations are making billions on it.
The irony is these corporations don't even value the software because they don't pay for it. Giving your software to them is like telling them your time is worth nothing.
I preferred the days when there was a mass of small developers selling software to what we have now. It feels like we have gone backwards.
> "The irony is these corporations don't even value the software because they don't pay for it. Giving your software to them is like telling them your time is worth nothing."
I said that in the '90s, because it was obvious even back then, and it was drowned out by the "We're gonna destroy all the evil proprietary software giants and all code will be free forever, yeah!" chorus. It's nice to finally be vindicated.
What would you expect, that open source developers give their work away for free and corporations just pay them for it anyway?
It became a "thing" because the incentives of FOSS software are to maximize developer freedom, not to ensure compensation for the developer. That doesn't change when the "developer" is a trillion dollar corporation.
Individual developers spend their free time developing a solution without making as much as a cent, while giant corporations are making billions on it.
How did that become a thing?