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by raphlinus·7y ago·view on hn ↗
Absolutely. Two other negative models are the music publishing industry and academic publishing. I was going to write "paywalled academic publishing," but some of the worst ethics are in the predatory open access space.

There's an opportunity. Paying an open source developer a living wage in return for taking some responsibility for security and updates is a reasonable thing, and would obviously benefit everyone all around. Whether we can actually get there is another question.