> If remote work is established properly, then your remote job will end instantly and will be shipped to Canada or Latin America (if bosses care about timezones) or to Eastern Europe or India
That was already happening. Remote work doesnt change anything with that.
Moreover, dont think that the senior dev in those other places will work for American companies for dimes like that. They will want the equivalent of top dollar in their country and that ends up being closer to the cost of the remote American dev when the obscene real estate/housing costs and general cost of living in places like SF or NY are removed from the equation. If you dont give that remote overseas dev the competitive rate in his/her country, he will either go with someone who does or he will just follow the traditional, more respectable career track in his country - like moving to manager positions in a respectable local corporation or launching his own business.
And if the American company goes for junior devs who are actually willing to be working for dimes when they start, they will get sloppy jobs like how they get with such cheap outsourcing now. And at the moment those juniors gain some experience, they will either ask for competitive pay or they will leave and take the traditional career route.
> I don't think I've ever had a Logitech mouse die on me
Likely you are not using the mouses heavily. I had many die on me. Especially my sweet, sweet G500 - the best mouse ever for people with large hands - actual large hands, that is. I repaired the clicker a few times by soldering in new clickers I bought online, but they wear off too fast.
That would be dumb - now not only they are losing talent, but they are also marking themselves as 'no go' for such talent by shutting off remote work. In future they could have to work as hard as Microsoft to change that reputation like how Microsoft had to work hard to change their reputation about Open Source software. (and still couldnt actually manage to do that).
Simply because it replicates the same inequality that was inherently built into the feudal system by companies that originated from industrial revolution copying it into the new production modes: The elites always had the right to 'working' remote, or not working at all. But the serfs, and later the 'employees' have always had to show up in the farms during feudalism so that the overseers could make sure that they were not slacking and therefore 'stealing from the lord' by their lack of productivity.
The factories/companies in the industrialized society copied this format and culture exactly as it was in late 18th and early 19th centuries. In this format, the benefits of the commons (in this case the capability of remote work that technology enables) is removed from the serfs artificially by forcing them to return to work just like how the unwilling serfdom was forced to go work in the factories by shutting the commons off to them by passing enclosure acts.
> Are you selling that software in the EU or are you merely making it available?
What difference does it make... If small developers and software businesses risk thousands of euros of fines, decided arbitrarily by the courts based on civil minimum and maximum limits, open source and small software in the Eu will die and the only ones to benefit from this will be the larger software companies that can afford the fines - who will be scooping up all the users of these open source projects and small developers - like the German software businesses who back the current German government and the German contingent in Euparl.
Note how the draft is designed to exclude the software that these major software companies are mooching off of - like Linux. Its basically exclude what you benefit from, kill who eat into your profit margins and be happy - total American corporate style legislation...
> it's possible for legislation to be terrible while conceived entirely in good faith
This is way too fine-tuned to destroy small software segments, open source and private developers included, for the benefit of large companies that will be able to afford the potential fines.
That has nothing to do with what I mean by good faith - I just mean that the legislation they’ve proposed is the legislation that they want passed.
That’s different from a poison pill amendment, where the intention isn’t to actually implement the policy, just to kill the legislation that you’re attaching it to.
One could be inclined to think that in different circumstances. However large software businesses (especially German) are among the backers of the bloc that governs Germany and controls a significant part of Euparl. So you can easily conclude that they would want it to pass...
> I think (maybe after some adjustments) this will be a boon to open source
How can arbitrary fines that will be decided by the judge and that can reach up to hundreds of thousands of euros from a few thousand euros per violation be a boon to open source...
Open source already has a problem funding itself. The funding comes from major corporate donors, who naturally decide the direction of the large projects they fund. The only Open source segment that successfully funds itself through its community members, users is WordPress, which remained free of corporate domination for a very long time as a result.
With this law, any small time open source software producer and any small time private software producer risk themselves and their livelihood for producing software, based on ambiguous rules. Which would make it very difficult and risky for small time projects or companies to produce software in Europe, and as a result benefit the big companies that can actually afford those fines.
This looks like a law crafted by the large German software business that currently dominates the German govt. and Euparl to hamper small time software for their own benefit. When the small open source projects and private software developers close up shop, the software and SaaS of these large businesses will scoop up their users.
To the contrary of being a boon to Open source, this may be the biggest, most well-coordinated attack against Open source in decades...
European here. If German SAP companies want to bankrupt themselves because of global cuts on ties on FLOSS, where almost every component has some dependency on these in one way or another, that's ok.
Look what happened to the Amiga, and former propietary software companies with in-home rewritting refusing to co-operate with standards. If they want to be the next idio... dumb CEO's trying to not be lynched form the share holders, I'm totally fine. They... won't.
> European here. If German SAP companies want to bankrupt themselves because of global cuts on ties on FLOSS, where almost every component has some dependency on these in one way or another, that's ok.
Note how the legislation is drafted to exclude the large open source projects that these companies mooch off of - like Linux. Both the large software companies and the projects that they sponsor can afford the fines.
But smaller software producers and open source projects that fund themselves through their users cant. So basically the law will kill smaller software producers and let the larger ones scoop everyone into their profitable SaaSes and installable software...
If the commute is no more than 15 minutes, you are losing 30 minutes there and back every day, which is 10 hours every month, almost a waking day every month. Its still lost time. This is without counting the time lost in preparing for getting out of the house, settling in at work, and then doing the exact opposite when commuting back. Make each 10 minutes if you are someone who gets up and going very fast. You are now up to 1 hour lost every day, 20 hours every month. Almost and entire day or two waking days...
Everything was already built in 2005. It turned out that the more things are already built, the more things people build, and that requires building even more things on top of it...
> You are probably the cleanest WP + PHP developer in history, who contrary to the messed up ecosystem of WP plugins has clean coding style that puts everyone else in the WP ecosystem to shame then
When you give people the power to do anything and dozens, or even hundreds of millions of people start doing anything and everything they can think of, many will create major messes. That happens with anything that becomes extremely widely used.
> or those multimillion dollar companies don't actually need that much functionality on their sites.
The WP world is so big that it has its own specializations and their subspecializations. You cant imagine what kind of complexity is involved in such systems and the variety of the problems that are being solved.
What WP does is to solve the problem of launching, running and maintaining A LOT of things right out of the bat, allowing you to build even more complex things. There are widely used plugins for many things ranging from using replicated databases to launching full fledged software/app store websites. The enterprise WP world builds on it instead of rejecting what others already built and are maintaining.
WP runs 50% of all the websites at the moment. 30% of all ecommerce websites. And 'website' means anything ranging from the sites of CNN, Reuters to the $5 florist shop site a flower shop owner in Oregon just launched without knowing anything about programming...
That was already happening. Remote work doesnt change anything with that.
Moreover, dont think that the senior dev in those other places will work for American companies for dimes like that. They will want the equivalent of top dollar in their country and that ends up being closer to the cost of the remote American dev when the obscene real estate/housing costs and general cost of living in places like SF or NY are removed from the equation. If you dont give that remote overseas dev the competitive rate in his/her country, he will either go with someone who does or he will just follow the traditional, more respectable career track in his country - like moving to manager positions in a respectable local corporation or launching his own business.
And if the American company goes for junior devs who are actually willing to be working for dimes when they start, they will get sloppy jobs like how they get with such cheap outsourcing now. And at the moment those juniors gain some experience, they will either ask for competitive pay or they will leave and take the traditional career route.