Contributing to Open-Source Should be Required, Like Jury Duty
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A note I found in my journal, from seven years ago, on the day I was summoned to participate in a jury of my peers: I have to go to jury duty as a member of this democracy. what if I had a summons to contribute to open source software becaus...
  • freeman@feddit.orgEnglish
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    10 hours ago

    Maybe it could count for Civil Service, like the Zivildienst in Switzerland, where you do work for your country instead of doing the mandatory military training.

    Like that the programmers or other nerds can contribute to greater things instead of working their minds numb in a hospital or sth.

    • Chakravanti@monero.townEnglish
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      3 hours ago

      Yes. Defnately. Shit. I’m so far left on it that closed source commercialization is criminal. Just because the “law” doesn’t recognize the obvious and brainwash the masses into nonsense, like Mani Mani, doesn’t make it not.