2019-09-04 | After banning adverts in command-line terminals, NPM floats idea of Patreon-style donations to open-source devs • The Register
' The current 'open source' system has to end, and it must be replaced by a more fair one." ®'
'The unfairness of it all has not been lost on individual open source project maintainers who face demands for continuing code improvements without monetary recognition. '
'As long as software developers improve open source projects at no cost and allow companies to exploit their labor without compensation, perhaps not. ', "NPM, Inc., the overseer of the widely used npm JavaScript package registry, hasn't been particularly supportive of worker complaints, but the would-be enterprise biz wants to lend a hand to open source contributors."
'While at least one NPM employee has said, evidently unbidden, that he's "stoked" about the project, those outside the company sound a bit more skeptical. '
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0 u/derram 04 Sep 2019 19:23
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' The current 'open source' system has to end, and it must be replaced by a more fair one." ®'
'The unfairness of it all has not been lost on individual open source project maintainers who face demands for continuing code improvements without monetary recognition. '
'As long as software developers improve open source projects at no cost and allow companies to exploit their labor without compensation, perhaps not. ', "NPM, Inc., the overseer of the widely used npm JavaScript package registry, hasn't been particularly supportive of worker complaints, but the would-be enterprise biz wants to lend a hand to open source contributors."
'While at least one NPM employee has said, evidently unbidden, that he's "stoked" about the project, those outside the company sound a bit more skeptical. '
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