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@baldur @toxi The other color I might add is that, in addition to the rich California coder cadre, a couple of decades back at least, there was a cohort of developers doing open source as a hobby alongside college work, or even work outside the industry, back when the cost of living crisis didn’t require full-time professional employment and there was room for, well, slack.
In the US at least, that path has narrowed to a knife’s edge.
@donaldball @baldur I agree, but it's not just so in the US. Also here in Europe/DE it's changing, rampant inflation is ongoing and the knife's edge is approaching! Never felt that gloomy about FOSS before (in almost 25 years)! It's not just the financial side[1], also socially, interest/excitement/contribs/sharing/discussion with others has massively slowed down, and I'm worried for how much longer we/I can keep this all up... What will come next?! Proprietary and/or Copilot are not a basis to form a new culture of shared knowledge/learning & reciprocity, especially not long term... So I'm wondering, once defunded (monetarily, politically & socially) what will this all morph into, what else is there/can there be? Will there be FLOSS winter before the next AI winter? Sometimes I think the role of contempary AI, its ubiquitous hype and the redirection of funding/attention are just strategic means to an end to divide, conquer and ensnare...
@donaldball @baldur I agree, but it's not just so in the US. Also here in Europe/DE it's changing, rampant inflation is ongoing and the knife's edge is approaching! Never felt that gloomy about FOSS before (in almost 25 years)! It's not just the financial side[1], also socially, interest/excitement/contribs/sharing/discussion with others has massively slowed down, and I'm worried for how much longer we/I can keep this all up... What will come next?! Proprietary and/or Copilot are not a basis to form...