it's a really complex picture, combining 1) volunteer labor 2) precarious unpaid labor 3) low-paid labour 4) a labour aristocracy in a context where, 1) capital owns software companies, not users or producers 2) the free software is mostly useful to producers of software, i.e. coders, not users who lack the knowledge to improve the software. On Tue, Jul 19, 2011 at 7:43 AM, Bryan Bishop <[email protected]> wrote:
On Mon, Jul 18, 2011 at 7:37 PM, Patrick Anderson wrote:
Do you agree this is already what we see in Free Software: that wages are approaching zero (much work done gratis)?
The wages aren't approaching zero; rather, programmers subsidize their own time with their own money. Some is still paying.
- Bryan http://heybryan.org/ 1 512 203 0507
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