It's gotta change to true community, where we lift each other up, looking to the future, readying others to take our mantle when we retire. That's the only way FOSS will thrive and have a chance to compete with corpos.
Then the old maintainers retire and die, and so does their precious baby that was 'open source' but not really, stranding it all in an old distro.
But hey, who cares how shitty the world is after you die amirite?
Yeah, this is a terrifying response that chases away young talent.
I saw a comment mentioning how the mature devs are cut out and don't have the chance to help pull up the new dev/give them training and wisdom.
If the older maintainers don't have time for new devs without all the experience they gained over a lifetime, then FOSS is in for a crash.
True, we perpetuate the unjust systems around us. Systems can be constructed to unfairly benefit some over others as well, like how capitalism unfairly benefits the wealthy.
There's some routing in place! It's not perfect everywhere I'll admit, but it's an option. An option owned by the public, improving every day, and more detailed if you want to help 🤗
Not to detract from the message, but the formatting here is really good? Like the inline citations with clear dates and bold font wrapped in parentheses is doin' it for me.
Visceral formatting hits harder
Seems like they realize repubs are winning the 'get rich taking bribes' game so hard it's erasing America. Seems like it's bad enough to alienate donors?
Edit: a word
Hope you're wealthy, and never fall on hard times, and never get taken advantage of by someone more powerful than you.