2026-04-22 20:18 UTC
@jzakotnik @thephpf yeah, I’m not saying we have to judge it as a black and white thing that applies to all developers. But keeping our eyes on the ball, the question was: should open-source work be recognised as volunteer work? To which I will say that no, it should not. Because the main beneficiaries are no longer the humans seeking to collaborate, but the corporations who benefit from AI at both ends.
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@jzakotnik@mastodon.social 2026-04-23 07:30
@arendjr @thephpf I'm not sure, we run a couple of school libraries and obviously the (grand-)parents in the school are doing volunteer work inbut if I build the software (with AI or not, it does not matter) that supports these libraries, this is suddenly not volunteer work? Sounds strange somehow.