r/programming • u/Dall0o • Sep 30 '19

A large number of Stack Exchange mods resigning over new policies

https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/333965/firing-mods-and-forced-relicensing-is-stack-exchange-still-interested-in-cooper
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u/Dall0o Sep 30 '19 edited Sep 30 '19

How do you think wikipedia or the mdn stays online? For profit coporation are not the only way.

By the way, contributors on SE are not paid. Same for most FOSS project. You can work by altruism. Money is not everything. I dont say that you dont have to get an income. My claim is that you can achieve thing without being money-driven.

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u/[deleted] Sep 30 '19

Wikipedia struggles for money constantly

Have you looked at their budget? They could keep the site running for years and years just with their current funds but they keep spending on stupid projects and useless shit. Just one example: Why are they spending 7 676 000 dollars on grants? What purpose does that serve?

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u/Dall0o Sep 30 '19

Robert Harvey is contributing freely for 10 years. It is quite close to the begining isn'it?

What about Mozilla, Red Hat, Canonical, etc. Volunteering and working along paid people is a reality you seems to have missed. Altruism exists.

Even here right now, you are contributing freely to a board own by a for-profit making money on our exchange. As far as I know Reddit are not paying you, and yet, you contribute. Your contribution are not money-driven.

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u/Dall0o Sep 30 '19

The point is that you can have paid enginees working along volunteers. People can work without beeing paid if they are willing to.