We need FOSS that (in-the-large, emergent) responsibly contributes to societal progress, and the starting point for that is that proper healthy environments exist to give the extra amount of attention and detail to focus on the entire supply chain and software lifecycle. It is not enough to just do the coding, create the tech, and dump it into society. Externalities must be better addressed.
For all that to be possible the conditions must be created where people can sustainably work on FOSS, eek out a living in it if they want to. Right now FOSS is inherently unsustainable except for the privileged who can spare the time and money to work on it, and a happy few who have a job in it.
Call should not just be "use FOSS" but "adopt FOSS and help sustain responsible FOSS ecosystems".
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Uncomfortable questions..
- To what extent is #FOSS complicit to the rise of #BigTech?
- To what extent is FOSS complicit to disruptive #AI craze we face today?
- To what extent are vibe coding #LLM even possible without FOSS?
"BUT.. BUT.. The License!"
- To what extent does slapping on a license free us from responsibility, knowing that it hardly offers protection from abuse?
- To what extent did FOSS too just introduce the tech and damn the externalities?
- To what extent is FOSS complicit to the current state of the world?
- To what extent is it enough to consider FOSS to be "imbibed by good morals and values" if we can't defend those?
#poll #ethics