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2title: February 16th, 2024
3date: 2024-02-16, 17:50:34 -08:00
4section: journal
5link: https://jacobian.org/2024/feb/16/paying-maintainers-is-good/
6tags:
7 - opensource
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9Jacob Kaplan-Moss writes [[Paying people to work on open source is good actually]] which very much matches my thoughts so I’m clipping it to my local notes.
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11I’ll share a handful of quotes:
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13> “Yelling at maintainers who’ve found a way to make a living is wrong.”
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15> “Open source is _good for humanity_…I want people who want to work on open source to be able to do so, and should be able to live comfortable lives, with their basic needs met.
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17> I’ll even use the terms “open source” and “free software” interchangeably just to hammer home how, in this context, the precise definitions of these terms don’t matter to me
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19One of the core things that I’m ready to fight for alongside Jacob is that “lower case” open source should be a bigger tent than [[OSI-approved Open Source]]™️ licenses, and it’s what **I** mean when I use the term.
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21> if my sloppy use of these terms bothers you _in the context of talking about how people make their living_, it implies that you care more about terminology and definitions than about the people, and I’d like you to sit in that discomfort for a while
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23Read [the whole thing](https://jacobian.org/2024/feb/16/paying-maintainers-is-good/).