People want the means to survive, grow and live in comfort. Just because we live in a capitalist dystopia does not mean the current requirement to live is what we want.
If you have all of those and somehow cant find a passion that creates value i rather have you sit at home and do nothing because i have no expectation the work will be of any quality.
Of course you wouldn’t sit at home and do nothing because that would be boring and people with the means to be mentally and physically healthy expect more of themselves.
Point to the “dirty” jobs like swiping the streets and i’ll point to the volunteers doing a much better job keeping things clean then the career people. Passion and the inherent desire to make things better is everything.
All the important cyber security stuff is build on free software nowadays, because it is superior software in every possible way you can measure.
Of course it’s not what we want, I’d also like to have the luxury of working as much as I want to, on what I want to. However, a lot of people, including software engineers who create said “indie software”, need to put food on their table. There are so many open source devs who are struggling under a heavy workload for very little money in donations. It’s the entire reason for the xz backdoor that could’ve affected a lot of Linux machines.
Don’t get me wrong, I’m writing this comment on my desktop running KDE Plasma. I love me some good FOSS. I’ve occasionally made contributions too. But until I’m financially independent, I’m afraid that most of the software I create is going to have to earn me money.
There’s also a difference between small shops working on things they’re passionate about, versus companies like Google and Microsoft, where you work for ONLY the paycheck. As a car enthusiast, allow me to introduce VCDS: A 3rd party diagnostics application for most VAG vehicles (VW, Audi, SEAT, Škoda are all supported and if you buy the top tier license, you also get support for some Lamborghinis). The original author, Uwe Ross, has been working on it for over two decades now, it must’ve been a passion project in the beginning at least. It has a bare-bones UI, but it works great and you get excellent first party support on the forums. It costs money, but it’s excellent software, hasn’t been enshittified via ads or anything, and you get a license when you purchase their cable or wireless OBD dongle. By now he probably doesn’t need the money anymore, but nowadays he’s got employees working on it as well and they also need to put food on their tables.
People want the means to survive, grow and live in comfort. Just because we live in a capitalist dystopia does not mean the current requirement to live is what we want.
If you have all of those and somehow cant find a passion that creates value i rather have you sit at home and do nothing because i have no expectation the work will be of any quality.
Of course you wouldn’t sit at home and do nothing because that would be boring and people with the means to be mentally and physically healthy expect more of themselves.
Point to the “dirty” jobs like swiping the streets and i’ll point to the volunteers doing a much better job keeping things clean then the career people. Passion and the inherent desire to make things better is everything.
All the important cyber security stuff is build on free software nowadays, because it is superior software in every possible way you can measure.
Of course it’s not what we want, I’d also like to have the luxury of working as much as I want to, on what I want to. However, a lot of people, including software engineers who create said “indie software”, need to put food on their table. There are so many open source devs who are struggling under a heavy workload for very little money in donations. It’s the entire reason for the xz backdoor that could’ve affected a lot of Linux machines.
Don’t get me wrong, I’m writing this comment on my desktop running KDE Plasma. I love me some good FOSS. I’ve occasionally made contributions too. But until I’m financially independent, I’m afraid that most of the software I create is going to have to earn me money.
There’s also a difference between small shops working on things they’re passionate about, versus companies like Google and Microsoft, where you work for ONLY the paycheck. As a car enthusiast, allow me to introduce VCDS: A 3rd party diagnostics application for most VAG vehicles (VW, Audi, SEAT, Škoda are all supported and if you buy the top tier license, you also get support for some Lamborghinis). The original author, Uwe Ross, has been working on it for over two decades now, it must’ve been a passion project in the beginning at least. It has a bare-bones UI, but it works great and you get excellent first party support on the forums. It costs money, but it’s excellent software, hasn’t been enshittified via ads or anything, and you get a license when you purchase their cable or wireless OBD dongle. By now he probably doesn’t need the money anymore, but nowadays he’s got employees working on it as well and they also need to put food on their tables.