I think there’s a step in between: forcing proprietary solutions (hardware, software, designs, …) to be opensourced once they aren’t maintained or supported anymore.
We could end the era of the developer as a specialized caste. Our tools should be powerful enough that they allow people with problems to collaborate on software to solve those problems, without having to let that become their full time job.
Criminalizing proprietary software.
I think there’s a step in between: forcing proprietary solutions (hardware, software, designs, …) to be opensourced once they aren’t maintained or supported anymore.
What alternative would you propose? FOSS is barely getting any donations / sponsors - So how are developers supposed to make a living?
We could end the era of the developer as a specialized caste. Our tools should be powerful enough that they allow people with problems to collaborate on software to solve those problems, without having to let that become their full time job.
UBI would be a step towards something better.