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The Beggar Barons

Zed Shaw · 5 Feb 2022

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  1. Our reading

    Large, wealthy companies use social manipulation and the guise of supporting open source to obtain free labor from developers.

    Their wordsJust like the Robber Barons before, these are fabulously wealthy companies that built their empires by (directly or indirectly) begging for free labor from open source developers.

  2. Our reading

    Trillion-dollar companies often avoid paying for open source projects because they can acquire the labor for free.

    Their wordsThey can get the project's labor for free, so why would they want to buy it?

  3. Our reading

    The number of companies that use open source as a facade to solicit free labor will increase in the future.

    Their wordsI predict there will be many, many more in the future, because it's so lucrative and that's the era we live in now.

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