The thought pops into my head that free/open source, and by extension software in general, shares many characteristics with “creative” industries such as publishing or music
The foundation of these industries is unpaid passion labour that’s treated as disposable.
@baldur This is super insightful. Capitalism’s superpower is finding the most efficient way to extract labor at a minimum price. Maybe another way to look at this is that capitalism will never compensate well for labor that someone will be doing anyway. Applies to: open source, art, housekeeping…