Re: [open-regulatory-compliance] Open Source Software Stewards and CRA W

[Scott Lewis <slewis@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On 11/8/2025 2:14 AM, Elizabeth Mattijsen via open-regulatory-compliance 
wrote:
> > On 8 Nov 2025, at 11:06, bashi--- via open-regulatory-compliance <open-regulatory-compliance@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> > Open Source as it stands has two arms.
> > One, corporate sponsored arm is paid handsomely.
> > The other, people building what they love can be considered a begging hand, for nothing is given there.
> > The second hand though does not ask, and is thus not a beggar.  None the less, that hand goes unfed for the software of value it creates.
> Indeed, unfed.
>
> But needing to ask a company for support, when that company literally made billions of dollars profit with a system built on Open Source, and getting maybe 50.000 euro / year (in good years), feels like begging to me.
>
> And that's from personal experience.

Yes there are people making billions of dollars profit off of other 
people's talent and labor.  Perhaps that should be considered a systemic 
problem to address and to fix...by policy, law, or even just 
convention?...instead of disparaging the exploited as beggars?


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