Comes on the heels of StackOverflow blog post attributing meteotic rise of Python to Pandas.<p><a href="https://stackoverflow.blog/2017/09/14/python-growing-quickly/" rel="nofollow">https://stackoverflow.blog/2017/09/14/python-growing-quickly...</a>
I do worry about the tragedy of the commons with FOSS. Massive amounts of social benefits accrue when there are high quality libre tools out there. Outside universities and some rare corporate positions, it's hard to find instances where engineers can work full time on the highest value, but lowest compensated projects.<p>Selfishly, I looks at things like a basic income as a means of getting to spend a year earning ramen money on valueable but non-economic projects.
<a href="https://mobile.twitter.com/wesmckinn/status/909772652532953088" rel="nofollow">https://mobile.twitter.com/wesmckinn/status/9097726525329530...</a><p>Well that certainly escalated quickly. The anger issues seem misplaced. Not a good way to solicit contributions.