Conversation

software needs foundations and unions to shut out the profiteers that pervert our hard work. foundations like the ASF and PSF have a long history of stewarding software properties specifically so they don’t become financial instruments, but labor has no steward. these foundations struggle to so much as discuss compensating labor beyond the profiteer’s purview. for that we need unions. not just company unions either, but nonexclusive trade unions to gather and protect the innumerable disciplines of the craft, to leverage collective bargaining both for labor standards and practical standards alike. until we organize, profiteers and propertarians will continue to monetize and exploit the ecosystem that volunteers built.