My Thinking Is Not for Sale
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Argues that money buys body time in front of a computer but not the mental work of design, because thinking is a voluntary gift and cannot be directly purchased. Shows how that creates a gap between donations and outcomes in open source: giving £30,000 does not causally produce the desired feature. Notes historical example of von Neumann’s unpaid patent and urges dropping purely transactional thinking about software labor.
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