Title of the blog: Money in Transit
> and can't understand why anyone else sees it differently.
I didn't get that impression at all. My take is that he's simply providing a view of OSS through the lens of financial transactions.
Worst part:
> We donate to charities to feel good and elevate our status. We give freebies to our prospects to put them at ease so that they reciprocate with a purchase. We apply for internships, we put together portfolios, and agree on grueling interviews to market ourselves as potential employees.
Which totally misses the point, since open source works as a gift economy [0]
Some give, others take.
I guess that's how things work in gift economies in real life, too.
I think both ideas exist in copyleft licenses, but were lost in the more permissive MIT-style licenses. Sometimes I wonder if maintainers feel burned because they use more permissive licenses, which might be standard in their ecosystem, but unconsciously have a different gift culture.