By 15 I could earn $200/mo after school saying “you want fries with that?” into a microphone and running a cash register for a drive-thru, and that was at $3.35/hr minimum wage. In Florida minimum wage is $15/hr now, so $200/month is less than 2 4 hour after school or one 8 hour weekend shift a week, even after taxes.

The $9K figure, as I read the summary, is total spent by all contributors to the project, and if they manage to develop a full commercial quality port for under $100K they’ve beat what the industry players would spend on developer time for the same job by a wide margin.

How many of their constituents will remember this 23 months from now?

This would work a whole lot better for me with some transparency, like a video archive of Sray making the sweater, a little bit of following her through her day, the ability of independent people to come in and visit / interview Sray once a month or so and include those in the video archive. Keep all that and get a link to it with purchase of your sweater.

Otherwise Sray might be some dirty sweaty unschooled kid walking 5km barefoot through untreated sewage to work under a tin roof making 3 sweaters an hour with machinery designed to mimic handmade details, complete with “attractive” human hairs to embed here and there, and $399 of your $400 purchase price is going to the factory owner and his distribution channel.

I don’t know who is arguing this because it’s incredibly stupid.

It’s not a hard question to solve: who profits from the argument?

Almost all modern architecture would collapse without the open source ecosystem.

If you yanked it away all at once, sure. Just like society would collapse if we quit delivering gasoline and diesel to the filling stations, or electricity to the grid.

If the opensource ecosystem “went closed” today, meaning: no new developments or changes allowed to be used by commercial entities, there would be an initial surge-panic to bring maintenance of the open source tools they use in-house, probably under shared development agreements - it would be interesting to see how the corporations handle that hypothetical scenario, but I don’t think they’d collapse at any greater rate than they already collapse as part of the course of regular business.

The ironic thing I think would come out of the open source community “cutting off” business use of their newly developed things is: I would predict business to adopt the open model to keep their customers off their backs, not have to handle support the way they did in the 1980s/ early 90s - that was super expensive as compared to: here’s a link to our website, you can find what you’re asking for in there.