My gut answer is “yes!!!” or “revolution” but I want to hear what y’all think. For those unware, some creative professions such as film writers get paid a small portion of all revenue generated by their work after it’s been produced, which is called a “residual,” and it’s part of their current fight with hollywood not properly paying those residuals due to the streaming loophole.

Since most programs that are profitable are based on the work of long gone developers (basically capital that gets worked on by machine labour), I think this might be a great demand for an eventual software development union.

What do y’all think?

  • Thoth19@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    This sounds like a great way to be forced to take responsibility for code you wrote decades later either legally or socially if there is a bug or future development. Feels slightly concerning to say the least