eidolon @shaderphantom@awoo.space

software needs foundations and unions to shut out the profiteers that pervert our hard work. foundations like the ASF and PSF have a long history of stewarding software properties specifically so they don’t become financial instruments, but labor has no steward. these foundations struggle to so much as discuss compensating labor beyond the profiteer’s purview. for that we need unions. not just company unions either, but nonexclusive trade unions to gather and protect the innumerable disciplines of the craft, to leverage collective bargaining both for labor standards and practical standards alike. until we organize, profiteers and propertarians will continue to monetize and exploit the ecosystem that volunteers built.

all the folks abandoning npm’s ship are coming away profoundly disillusioned. for example:

> Capitalism loves ESR-open-source because companies get a lot of good stuff for free. Capitalism takes this even further by telling you all that you have to do this to get hired. “Github is your resume,” they tell you, hand outstretched to take free code from you and sell what they make with it.

from: https://github.com/ceejbot/economics-of-package-management/blob/master/essay.md

h/t @cstanhope for putting this article in my feed

pplease help im shitting