Mike Nolan speaks on winners and losers in FOSS. What open source 'won'? #Fosdem2023 #fosdem
With a link to the slides: bit.ly/3HuJ5QL
Winners and Losers in FOSS
Winners and Losers in FOSS Open Source Has "Won" - Have We? I’m Mike Open@RIT Federation of Humanitarian Technologists OES Scholar of Political Economy of Science and Technology Political Economy is the study of how economic systems and political sys…Google Docs
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* FOSS today doesn't compete with proprietary, it facilitates it
* Labour of FOSS developers is "increasingly dictated by firms"
* FOSS contributors often have precarious employment, are among the first to be cut (apparently?)
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