“Won't programmers starve?” Do something else

Thanks for reposting. This is the first time I've read it since the great transition from software to internet-accessible services. It reads differently now.

I suppose rms isn't very happy about services, even if the source code that runs those services is often largely open. I mean, if you don't like what a particular service does, builtwith.com will tell you whether it's based on rails, django or whatever, and from there finding the open source that does the heavy lifting is simple.

So in a way, the modern combination of open source and SaaS does enable what rms wrote: Get a github account, write code, send PRs, you can contribute and can get your preferred changes deployed as services upgrade. But I feel that rms doesn't see this particular glass as half full.