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Re: [open-regulatory-compliance] Open Source Software Stewards and CRA Whitepaper: review in progress until November 20th
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On 11/9/2025 1:10 AM, Elizabeth Mattijsen via open-regulatory-compliance
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On 9 Nov 2025, at 03:44, Scott Lewis via open-regulatory-compliance <open-regulatory-compliance@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
On 11/8/2025 2:14 AM, Elizabeth Mattijsen via open-regulatory-compliance wrote:
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?
Yes, it *is* a systemic issue.
And no, this is not intended to be disparaging, quite the opposite!
I think I speak for some when I say that referring to a large group of
professionals as 'beggars' could be considered disparaging.
Many of these companies see open source communities as beggars, is my point.
Slightly adapted quote from earlier mail:
"But it is also an opportunity making Open Source from being perceived as a beggar, to an appreciated member of society."
That's indeed better, thank you for clarifying the ironic intent.
However, I think even being *perceived* as beggars is completely
wrong-headed. It may be commonly wrong-headed...e.g. by many
companies...but it seems to me that the wrong-headedness about value
creation is a big part of the systemic issue we are referring to.
Elizabeth Mattijsen
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