julian-a-avar-c

This is very interesting food for thought imo. I mean, I've mentioned that the only thing I want is for large companies not to do deals behind our back that might affect us negatively on purpose.

But let's talk about my ideal world. I think allowing developers to work on open source (or eat a second lunch if they prefer) would be a tremendously good idea, not just for all the mental freedom it would give to developers, but also because it would help propel the _entire_ industry forward. Imagine if _half of every single dev_ did OSS during that time.

What a world that would be.

Some further discussion for those interested: https://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/17b0otb/commen...

You have no idea how grateful I am to hear someone say that last part. God, curiosity can be such a nerve wreck.

Here is something I just found: https://www.gameworkersunite.org/

Please do let me know if those six unions would not be considered technical. And I'll try to keep looking. Perhaps we can find a good example of failing and a winning union (according to your definition) or get as close as possible, take the best of each, and build something better.

My thoughts are: Lets create it then! We can make Amazon, Google, tech giants, operating systems, large language models, Chrome, data processing engines... Why would we be incapable of creating a good system for ourselves. Not a perfect one, we can upgrade the version later (lol, Union 2.3.4, merge conflict). But I think we should all want some guarantees to make sure that Big Tech can't unilaterally screw half of us _on purpose_.

Maybe I have a case of "wishful thinking", but I think developers are smart enough, and kind enough to get something like this working without too much corruption, and bureaucracy (since you can never eliminate it completely).

I mean, look at us, we have OSS. And that might not sound like much for someone who's been industry long enough, but I feel like it's a statement of the freedom we all seek when we use our computers, the power we have (not me, I could stand to loose some mediocrity :P).

If you don't mind me sharing my opinion. I think that a union is just an entity that represents the workers. And not all unions of all trades have to work the same way. I think we should encourage entrepreneurship. But I also don't want the entire industry to keep on disregarding and overhiring (I see it as gambling on the economy with people) and then mass layoff workers. I'm not the best if tasked with such a question, I just do coding, I feel there must be a middle ground, and that's why I'm here :D What makes you less optimistic about it?