The ability to change features, prices, and availability of things you’ve already paid for is a powerful temptation to corporations.

  • @ParsnipWitch@feddit.de
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    -132 years ago

    Why don’t you just gift away your software than? That’s an honest question. You obviously aren’t expecting to be paid for it, do you think in general developers shouldn’t earn money with software or is it just you?

    • @grue@lemmy.world
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      152 years ago

      Why don’t you just gift away your software than?

      Because I don’t make those decisions; my employer does. They ought to give it away, but they don’t.

      (The software I’ve worked on has tended to be either (a) tools for internal company use or (b) stuff used by the government/large companies where the revenue would definitely have come from a support contract even if the code itself were free.)

        • @grue@lemmy.world
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          11 year ago

          That question is a red herring. My employer isn’t paying me to write software; they’re paying me to write the software they want instead of the software I want to make.

    • Aniki 🌱🌿
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      122 years ago

      I am a system engineer who works on a project that is open source, AMA