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Boosted by baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason"):
smallcircles@social.coop ("🫧 socialcoding..") wrote:
I don't think it is enough to call for just open source at this point. Big Tech is built on open source and LLMs wouldn't be what they are today without open source.
We need FOSS that (in-the-large, emergent) responsibly contributes to societal progress, and the starting point for that is that proper healthy environments exist to give the extra amount of attention and detail to focus on the entire supply chain and software lifecycle. It is not enough to just do the coding, create the tech, and dump it into society. Externalities must be better addressed.
For all that to be possible the conditions must be created where people can sustainably work on FOSS, eek out a living in it if they want to. Right now FOSS is inherently unsustainable except for the privileged who can spare the time and money to work on it, and a happy few who have a job in it.
Call should not just be "use FOSS" but "adopt FOSS and help sustain responsible FOSS ecosystems".