Decided to spin the wheel and read an article from a language developer, I got gingerBill and oh boy.
Hard disagree with "Unstructured Thoughts on the Problems of OSS/FOSS", I can reconcile with 1 or 2 points he makes out, but overall that read is exactly my issue with software developers.
I could go all day long with my thoughts about property, software as property, whether we should consider it any other different from a chair and stuff like that.
But what really ruins the whole thing for me is his argument that fall under capitalistic mindset, is this "treating software as a product" ideology that has taken over for decades that really annoys me...
There's nothing bad about wanting to make a living out of your FOSS stuff, I won't tell anyone that they should just give away their work for free for "the greater good", that's a personal choice of every person.
But trying to make the principles of FOSS look as "issues" because of how software works or how it makes it hard to be profitable is a flawed take in my book, it's completely missing the point.
"I don’t think OSS nor FOSS has been a good thing for software, and probably a huge acceleration towards why software has been getting worse over the years."
Also this last part feels extremely funny, I'm not even gonna explain why.
@NullTheFool OMFG lol! The complete disconnect with reality is jarring.
The proprietary software I've seen in my 20 years writing code is consistently worse than most of the open source projects I've seen out there, not to mention everyone can audit and learn from OSS.
Oct 6, 2026, 7:34 PM@NullTheFool i've been wondering recently if he always was a chud to his current extent or if increased proximity to the extended caseyverse has made it worse