• glukoza@lemmy.dbzer0.comOP
    22·
    11 months ago

    Just to clarify, this post is not meant to glorify startups! Startups also have CEO and it’s same as first line in the meme.

    This post is meant to start a discussion and to highlight the effects big tech having on FOSS.

    It’s aginst big tech not aginst FOSS!

  • derbis@beehaw.org
    18·
    11 months ago

    🫤

    Maybe some examples would be in order.

    Counterexamples might include Firefox, Blender, and Lemmy.

    • glukoza@lemmy.dbzer0.comOP
      13·
      11 months ago

      firefox is not that clear, they get funding by google for putting google as default search engine thus helping google. We have a problem with FOSS funding

      • derbis@beehaw.org
        12·
        11 months ago

        While that’s true I think this meme is far from a fair characterization of that arrangement, given how Mozilla differs so starkly from Google on the direction of the open web. Case in point, their refusal to deprecate manifest v2 for browser extensions.

      • RachelRodent@lemmy.dbzer0.com
        3·
        11 months ago

        It is the only way they can get as much funding so I would say that it’s more than in the clear, firefox is the only escape from google’s monopoly on web (chrominum)

    • glukoza@lemmy.dbzer0.comOP
      3·
      11 months ago

      Maybe some examples would be in order.

      I agree on that. I’m looking into writting about FOSS funding with examples and proposing solutions for this issue. Just that takes a long time and a meme is easier.

  • ISometimesAdmin@the.coolest.zone
    9·
    11 months ago

    Hey, I maintain a highly popular (if niche) FOSS library. Where the fuck is my big tech paycheck where they bribe me into integrating with their product?

    /s Silly take IMO, relies on cherry-picking popular FOSS projects where you can see “the influence” of big tech, AND then No True Scotsman your way into saying that they’re not allowed to participate in the development/influence of FOSS because… checks notes they’re the ones funding the project/putting money in front of otherwise unpaid volunteers?

    If you end up coming up with a better scheme for things that has the actual practical effect of compensating devs appropriately (yes, that means at current market rates or better) for their work, then please let us know so we can switch to doing that immediately. I will literally do anything you suggest if it would achieve that end.