The fundamentalist FOSS mentality
The complains about FOSS fundamentalists coming from proprietary software dev&#x27; (which I am) always seems a bit hypocritical to me.<p>The reason is, you probably use a lot of FOSS software that were made possible only because a lot of people dedicated time and effort to it.
Your servers probably run Linux, if not, the services that you use everyday probably do. Your compiler&#x2F;language is probably FOSS too, if not, the software that was used to make it was probably. Your OS probably contain some FOSS software or was made using some. Even this blog post was only possible because of free software (medium rely on NGinx, NodeJS, Redis, ...).<p>Today, it is almost impossible to work without at some point relying on a free software or using software that relies on free software.
We wouldn&#x27;t be were we at right now if it was not for FOSS. Hell, a lot of us may not have ever been developers if it was not for FOSS. I know I only learned programming because of FOSS like Ruby, Linux, GCC, ...<p>So I understand that we don&#x27;t live in a world where everything is simple and where we can all live making free software. But criticizing the people who made your job possible doesn&#x27;t seem like a good thing.