Gregory's Server
@baldur @glyph Not sure about the point about laid-off/unemployed engineers not coding. I have spent periods of funemployment between contracts/jobs on side projects (a few apps/frameworks, some playing around with various technologies/languages and such). Looking at the fediverse, I don’t seem to be alone in this. Perhaps better social security such as a UBI would lead to more open source contributions.
@acb @baldur I think the truth is nuanced (and I would love a heavily footnoted version of this article with stats! But that is probably a huge amount of work) but I am an interesting exception that proves the rule: my independent crowdfunded maintenance work pays about 0.01% (yes that is the correct placement of the decimal point) of the commercial/proprietary work that I do. That number has been climbing but it is a *steep* hill before this makes any sense whatsoever