inblogtagsopen-sourcemuckrakingdate5/3/2024I like open source. I like the idea of gifts to the commons. I like the idealism, this naïve belief that if we all do our part, we can make beautiful things together. Unfortunately, I’ve spent the past few months committed to profiling the open source community for this blog. Now, I know that I was stupid. In our culture, open source does not represent freedom. It represents an exploitive relationship, where wealth is brutally extracted from maintainers...