[plug] Sobering read on the reality of open source software development

[Onno Benschop]

Hi Yuchen,

My point around those platforms was around my content being used to
advertise to others. Their search indices integrate my content, as they do
for all content they hoover up.

With that, they then present "relevant advertising" to people who search
for things that I'm answering with my content.

I see none of that revenue, neither does anyone else.

Not to mention, Google maps and reviews where my updates and reviews helps
everyone else, but I don't see a dime.

Corporate surveys are another.

My point being that my (and anyone else who does this) content goes
unrewarded.

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On Tue, 22 Mar 2022, 06:48 Yuchen Pei, <ycp at gnu.org> wrote:

> Yeah sustainability of free software is a tricky problem, similar to
> other the sustainability of public goods like journalism, research and
> art.  I'm not sure whether it is a consequence of tolerating proprietary
> software, or neoliberalism, or both.
>
> On Mon 2022-03-21 11:44:34 +0800, Onno Benschop wrote:
>
> >
> > The centralisation of software and media are both following the same
> path. As a
> > software developer and podcaster, I'm contributing more than most to the
> likes
> > of Google, Facebook, Twitter, Github, AWS and others. None of this
> generates
> > income.
>
> I don't quite understand this bit.  How are you contributing to these
> platforms?  If none of this generates income, why would you keep
> contributing to these platforms?  Or is it an involuntary kind of
> contribution, like people publish your work on these platforms without
> your consent?
>
> Best,
> Yuchen
>
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