Why do people do it?

You don't make any money off it.

Why wouldn't anybody want to be a millionaire/billionaire

Mo money Mo problems as said by the great B.I.G

>>105706664
preach

>>105706642 (OP)
Watch Stallman's talk please
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ag1AKIl_2GM

>>105706642 (OP)
Not everything in life must be motivated by profit. Some people want to work on something, and do it with other people.

Money is evil, freedom isn't. Easy.

>>105706716
Wrong. Profit is the only rational motive. Anyone not maximizing profit is mentally ill and needs to be corrected immediately.

>>105706746
this is a jewish mentality. people who seek knowledge generally want to share it. there are boundaries where profit is to be made but most people stop giving a shit when the bills are paid.
the exception is the jew. the jew will always covet that which makes it money.

>>105706642 (OP)
You're not poor and just want people to use your creation
You want other people to contribute and improve it
You have the best tool at X and feel like the community you're part of that depends on X will benefit from its superiority
You don't know how to fix something and decide to share the code in hopes someone helps you out
You're a big greedy company that wants free work done on some code you make millions off but that's immoral so you release the code and things go even more in your favor because now you're one of the good guys(TM) in the hearts of freetards

passion and generosity. im making a game thats totally free and open source. ive been working so extremely hard on it. but its going to be totally free, because i dont really need the money to get rich, i just want to give players a good game.

>>105706759
I am spiritually jewish

>>105706746
Not every form of profit is material

>>105706642 (OP)
>i wanted to fix your shitty software to make my life more convenient
>no

>>105706798
well i've physically got a pizza oven i'd like to show you the inside of.

>>105706642 (OP)
>Why wouldn't anybody want to be a millionaire/billionaire
most people just want to not have to worry about money

>>105706746

Collaboration has benefits, something even commies can understand.

>>105706642 (OP)
let's examine to figure it out
what effect are free models having

>>105706642 (OP)
By sharing you prevent becoming a slave.

>>105706806
Go back to your island, Hatsune

>>105706798
We know your parents mutilated (you).

>>105706642 (OP)
China cares about hardware. That's where they get money from. USA cares about software. That's why china will open source stuff

>>105706642 (OP)
>Uhh, why is somebody being nice????
>This doesn't make sense, are they going to start the war afterwards or ????????
Fucking stupid amerifats

>muh authoritarian state
I fucking despise westoids so fucking much

>>105707057
What if I remotely delete your files in america, racist? Will your gun help you then?

>>105706642 (OP)
China's people aren't China.
The Chinese government can really only set industrial policy and guide industries using promises of money and protection.
Sure they could probably be heavy handed and tell people to stop releasing shit into the open source, but the Chinese government clearly knows when to let the market do what it wants and when to rein it in.

If you're a big corporation there are advantages to the open core model. You can use the open source version to incubate ideas and see which approaches are winners and losers, then later adopting the winning approach as stable into your software.
This is a big advantage if you make a lot of money in platforms. No one really believes there's competitive advantage in plumbing. That's why open source is powerful there, because if the industry can converge on plumbing then they can find advantages in real features.
good examples of plumbing:
RISC-V
Linux Kernel
Kubernetes
NixOS
Containers

>>105706642 (OP)
>but at what cost

>>105706746
Fuck off, Dodge.
Maximizing shareholder value is literally the worst Supreme Court decision in all of US history.
Ford knew what he was doing. You fucked it up by having the foresight of a goldfish.
Idiots who think like you don't know profit from loss

>>105706642 (OP)
>authoritarian state
Just like the USA?

>>105706642 (OP)
A lot of times open source software is still paid for by somebody. It's also a hobby for others and a good list of open source software projects can serve as a bit of a portfolio for those lookng for programming jobs.

It's simply superior to proprietranny slop.
I'd rather do it for free with other white men than pay $144/year for a subscription to some niggerware that was 97% outsourced to India, because it was more profitable that way.
This is literally how it is, jeetware is expensive, and white man's software is free to use.

>>105706746
what sort of profit? long term profit? short term profit? monetary profit? social/external profit? profit to employees? profit to employer?
>>105707617
oh right, it's short term monetary profit to the owners of capital. just debt with infinite upside.
>>105706642 (OP)
what does the article imply? that the prc hates open source?
it's the whole fucking point, retards. they had sanzai early on and industrial clustering now. they don't see "stealing" ideas from foreigners as a problem because it's patently not a problem they recognize within china, between local businesses.

>>105706642 (OP)
Every year corpo enshittifies their apps trying to leverage their moat over their users and business partners

Every year linux gets better and more mainstream through sharing and caring

Nation states can also see it as a cultural and technological imperialism

2xnod

>>105708271
>Every year linux gets better
Are you living under a rock? Linus is getting older, not younger. His daughters (his drones) will soon get dick up their asses.

Brace yourselves, for you are all Linus' little children.

>>105706846
Even the Ferengi would understand t hat there is a niche where the concern is collective personal surplus, and not surplus to the current empoyeer.
In the CCP in some sectors competition is heavy that employees are garntueed to go bankrupt, but even then most of the time hardware is useless without software and vice versa.

Its fundamentally a way to deal with the fact there isn't a Chinese Xerox/Mirosoft/IBM
Its also a way to offset the inhouse costs, and means you can hire/poach people who have larger commits or major commits to software, instead of guessing if they are just a nice face or a good worker

>>105706746
>>105706642 (OP)
>>105706798
>mutilated kike cant understand not being a kike
more news at 10

>>105706746
Damn so how is that new rig helping you maximize profit? What about that meal earlier today? Why not just eat something bland but nutritious instead? Or maybe the nice chair you got? Just get a plastic lawn chair, it's more profitable for you.

>>105706746
Workers don't make any profit yet they're still working. Even the highest paid workers don't make that much after taxes.

>>105706642 (OP)
Well, most software is not profitable. Let's say you've written, I don't know, a UI library that's a little nicer for some use-cases than any other library.
Is it really so much better than free libraries like Qt that people would want to pay for it? Probably not. Even if some people would, can you find enough rubes for the revenue would make any kind of difference to your life? Probably not.
So you might as well release it for free and get *something* out of it. A line to put on your CV, something to talk about in interviews, some name recognition if it's really good.
It's a coordination problem in some sense because maybe people would pay for it if all UI libraries cost money. But that's not the world you live in.

>>105706642 (OP)
>Not sharing link
OP's computer should be taken away from him for a week.

>>105706746
What's the profit incentive of writing this horrendous post?

>>105708379
It took 5 seconds to open the windows menu again, didnt it?

>>105706642 (OP)
-People like challenging themselves
-You can improve your resume/github with real project. It's good for landing your first job
-If you make your project open source, you can attract collaborators to improve it and making it more used by others.

Life is not just about money.

>>105708560
he profits (You)s, obviously

>>105708566
dunno, nasdaq flattened my battery

>>105706746
TRVTH NVKE

>>105708589
Ah i see, you were forced updated in to 50% battery life decrease, gas lit relentless for years and then offered a starbucks giftcard if you jumped through 20 hoops

>>105708605
Thank god we're only being sarcastic

>>105708688
If only.

Sure it wasnt "forced" but the update pop over appeared randomly multiple times day with only yes or remind me later options

Eventually you just mis click it as it interupted user flow over the browser url, no are you sure, than consumes your months worth of data

>>105708837
I had the iPhone 5 with the battery gate thing and the scampple store scum didn't want to exchange it for me because their shitty iPhone 5 had a broken compass and the screws
>we're opened before
(they were not), In their eyes this definitely meant I opened the device and need to sit on the damages.

The fell for it again award is the biggest humiliation. I won't fall for apple again.

>>105706642 (OP)
Short term lose for long term gains

>>105706642 (OP)
Because everyone adopts it more easily if it's opensource
And all of a sudden you control the entire industry.