Re: Is AI-generated code changing free software?

[Jean Louis]

> You are correct in your sociological observation regarding
> businesses and families and workers standing up for the bosses in
> the family-run companies.  I worked very long (9+ years) for the
> Schumacher's and Øien's ISP company before they kicked me on the
> street and took my key card with my lunch payments of 14,400 NOK
> just to demonstrate raw power of their family-run company.  It is
> what happens if workers protest against status quo in a family-run
> software company.

I don't have any practical use of your individual case as their side
is not hear to be heard. Good thing, living in beautiful Norway, with
all of the social services, can't put you really in bad situation.

Why would you protest in a family-run company? Either you are with
them, or not with them. Simple.

You may have your own goals, if I say I go with you to Bergen by
bicycle, then I go there with you, and if I am not with you, I go my
own way, or take a train.

> Usually the families are good, devoted religious people who want to
> help society by bringing goods that the workers get paid for to
> produce for them and pay for with their salary to the market.

> Free Software is different, since there is no single family that
> rules over Free Software Developers and who masters the payment.

But how not? You have thousands of projects to contribute, and each
contribution is appreciated.

> Payments in Free Software are voluntarily.

Yes and no. If you put yourself in position to receive some funds in
non-ordered way, fine, but you can as well seek a position where you
can get paid for creating free software.

> Since the consumer price of Free Software is near zero, the
> manufacturing cost comes naturally by those who give donations to
> workers who are less fortunate than you.

That is your subjective opinion. Use it. Find use of it. Sell
it. Someone hinders you? Enable hospital management, sell the
packages.

> Instead of paying family-run companies for software, pay to
> individual workers you see are devoted to certain tasks such as
> documentation, translation, release announcements and distribution.

Of course, I agree with that, whoever gives me service, I also pay
them.

If you or anybody as individual offers valuable product for exchange,
that is where you get the success.

> Don't profit only on Free Software, share your income with other
> people in the community.

"Share" income? Why don't you share your income. That is why it is
called "your", because it is not for the community.

Sharing and contributing are different things.

Sharing income may be too difficult for many people, there may be
nothing left to share once they cover their expensive mortgages or
life expenses.

> Provide more people with a stable income for their work in Free
> Software by sharing money.

"By sharing money"? No my friend, be productive, offer services and
products of good value to other people and you will get money.

I am personally contributing to students, children, poor communities,
so I do my social betterment work in the way and manner possible. I
will not be sending money to whatever Norwegian software developer,
who lives in socially secured country. Rather will pay the scholarship
to teenagers in Uganda.

Jean Louis