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Zed Shaw

What Zed Shaw thinks about open source

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Programmer, writer and musician; author of the Learn Code the Hard Way books and of Mongrel, the Ruby web server.

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4 dated positions, 2016 to 2022, in their own words. Our reading of what Zed Shaw has said — not written or endorsed by them.

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  1. Our readingLarge, 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.

    ↗The Beggar Baronszedshaw.com 1st of 3 in this piece

  3. Our readingTrillion-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?

    ↗The Beggar Baronszedshaw.com 2nd of 3 in this piece

  5. Our readingThe 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.

    ↗The Beggar Baronszedshaw.com 3rd of 3 in this piece

  6. 5 years earlier

  7. Our readingThe newer generation of programmers is more well rounded and has a general distaste for tribalism in open source.

    Their wordsI also believe the newer generation of programmers are more well rounded and have a general distaste of this kind of tribal fascist bullshit we have in open source.

    ↗The End Of Coder Influencezedshaw.com 2nd of 3 in this piece