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  • I don’t think you can compare high quality mature OSS projects to busking. I love buskers and busking, I’m old school punk. But the analogy to busking in the software world would be just random devs’ small personal projects.

    The better analogy for a big mature project and the phenomena the author is describing:

    • team of people create a large scale professional grade musical performance and allow attendance for free
    • til now, enough people come to the free show that spend money in other ways to sustain the whole thing
    • now, gigantic companies stole everything in the show, put it into their giant entertainment library, giving nothing back, and there are no longer enough attendees to support the free show

    I can see disagreeing with what to do about the problem, but it’s bizarre to me to see the “fuck AI in every way” place turn around and attack this guy.