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For Love or Money: Open Source’s Labor Law Problem
Open source software is built on volunteer labor. While we could argue about the overall “point” of open source (and people definitely do), under most accepted definitions, public, volunteer contribution is a core part of how open source software functions. However, in some cases, that volunteer contributor labor is explicitly organized, scheduled, and directed the…
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Being The Bigger Table
The night before PressConf, a bunch of us ended up at the same restaurant. We mostly got there separately, in that way where a hundred people descend on a small city for a conference and everybody wants tacos. We arrived in different clusters and contexts, engaged in different conversations, some of us knowing each other…