>Yes, I would like to drive the cost of software to zero, for the same reasons that I would like to drive the cost of energy, housing, and food to zero.
Then you're going about it exactly backwards, the worst possible way.
Wages/prices are driven by perceived value and constrained by price floor. If you want me to work for free then you first have to get energy, housing and food to be free. As long as I have to pay, I have to charge. What kind of stupidity leads one to first kill wages instead of rent seeking?
>This is in fact how most developers are paid today.
So what? The reason many of us are in this field is because it is one of the few left where we have the potential to escape wage slavery. If you want to close that door expect to meet resistance. You're basically telling us all to get back in the mines and stop dreaming about the future.
Then you're going about it exactly backwards, the worst possible way.
Wages/prices are driven by perceived value and constrained by price floor. If you want me to work for free then you first have to get energy, housing and food to be free. As long as I have to pay, I have to charge. What kind of stupidity leads one to first kill wages instead of rent seeking?
>This is in fact how most developers are paid today.
So what? The reason many of us are in this field is because it is one of the few left where we have the potential to escape wage slavery. If you want to close that door expect to meet resistance. You're basically telling us all to get back in the mines and stop dreaming about the future.