• corsicanguppy@lemmy.ca
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    1 year ago

    Yay for zero-sum thinking!

    If you went into open-source hoping to

    • get paid now
    • sell it later
    • be financially successful
    • live large on licensing
    • rake in that support pork

    You’re in the wrong place. Like 100% of people whose motivation for a career in comp sci was the money, it’s better to quit now before you invest time and your own money for absolutely nothing.

    Of those 100%, some of them went onto rewarding careers elsewhere. Some of them went into dreary jobs elsewhere. But they all eventually went elsewhere.

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      1 year ago

      That’s just not true. Plenty of people have made a career in comp sci entirely to make money. What are you talking about?

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      You can always release your software under the GPL and charge a licensing fee for an alternative proprietary license. Even the FSF and Richard Stallman are okay with that and it can absolutely be a viable and ethical business model.

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      1 year ago

      I wish the people in it for the money would hurry up and leave the market is so saturated