fiasco@possumpat.iotoTechnology@lemmy.ml•Red Hat’s commitment to open source: A response to the git.centos.org changesEnglish
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1 year agoI feel the other thing missing from all this Discourse is, IBM made UNIX. If they want to act all proprietary, why don’t they abandon Linux and return to their own operating system?
That’s right, because of the enormous amount of free labor they get from the open source community.
As I recall, the basic differences between employee and contractor are whether the employer can dictate time, place, and manner. The problem for gig “contractors” is that they’re in a much tougher spot on exercising their rights, since not many people who can afford a lawyer deliver food. And they aren’t exactly in short supply, so if Uber oversteps and individual “contractors” try to push back, they’ll just be fired. Which gets back to the lawyer issue.