and more wiggle for time between jobs
I don't think people get just how much the volunteer landscape has changed, especially volunteer admins, because volunteer stuff is an "attention" economy (and a spare time/energy economy)
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in reply to @NireBryce's post:
tbh I wonder if freelance sysadmins are going to be a thing soon, like dog walkers but for your homelab/hobbycloud
Gig econ app where you are summoned to fix someone’s weird fucked up wordpress instance for six dollars
This feel big at Google, where the better half of our useful stuff came from 20% projects (which itself was a way of claiming that time from workers, but now the culture is focused at “just crunch out those hours”)
Just in general, if people had spare time to pursue their interests, we’d all be contributing to a richer culture and innovating things that could benefit society,
But capitalists want to squeeze every human resource of every spare moment with the hope that they’ll not have any energy to assist a competitor (and maybe also crunch out another couple tasks)
I guess the other thing I didn't consider is hobbiest open source contributions and maintenance go way down with clauses that say code written in your free time is owned by the company for the duration of the contract, and that was less a thing back then
God, that’s a big one too. I wish courts would strike it down. It’s technically unenforceable, but only if you have the money and willpower to fight a big corpo’s lawyers
big EFF opportunity tho. first amendment + corporate control over code
How do I holler at them loud enough to make them make it a priority (jk I truly don’t have time or energy to do that)
no idea. I'm considering bringing ditching it for me up during negotiations everywhere I go, though, outside of BigCo where I don't have a choice with the leverage I've got
I wonder if it’ll have to be a case where like Amazon uses open source library X, authored by Bob, then Bob’s employer Google catches on the library X is valuable and claims ownership of it and tried to charge Amazon, and then court
Actually they’d probably settle it outside of court to continue to mutually benefit from the legal ambiguity
there are enough nerds hating this clause that I'm sure statistically there's at least 4 of them trying to get the titans to clash
It’s essentially not a thing in Europe, come to the dark side :)