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I love programming but I hate the programming industry (www.deathbyabstraction.com)
submitted 6 months ago by mao@lemmy.sdf.org to c/programming@programming.dev
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I don't entirely subscribe to the first paragraph – I've never worked at a place so dear to me that spurred me to spend time thinking about its architecture (beyond the usual rants). Other than that, spot on

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[–] heeplr@feddit.de 28 points 6 months ago (1 children)

either earn a good living being a code monkey, or find a job in a small company that has passion

crazy idea: let's publicly fund FOSS projects so devs working on stuff they like with a passion can actually make a good living and enable sustainable non-profits to hire expertise, marketing and all the stuff a company needs

the result would be actually good software and happy devs

[–] faltryka@lemmy.world 8 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Ok let me know how you plan on getting other people to fund that.

[–] heeplr@feddit.de 12 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

Public funds.

There actually are lots of initiatives (e.g. https://bigdatastack.eu/european-open-source-initiative ) but it's still young and there are multiple problems between available public money and contributors actually earning a salary.

Money is not the problem.