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Linus Torvalds affirms expulsion of Russian maintainers (www.theregister.com)

submitted 13 hours ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] -4 points 2 hours ago* (last edited 1 hour ago) (1 children)

Did they get paid?

Edit: Very likely they were paid, and that's where IP addresses end and sanctions begin.

Every worker within an organization has to be paid, somehow.

Somebody must bear the costs of the supposedly “free (gratis).” In the end, nothing is truly free cost. And, not a single person would work for free (no payment, compensation, or benefits, or in other words, gratis) full-time.

It is an absurdity to think otherwise.

Free and open-source software is handed out at zero-cost to make it possible to lower the barrier of entrance; to make it as widely available as possible. Knowledge should, indeed, be free (gratis).

https://medium.com/@uriadonayherrera/economics-in-foss-is-paying-for-free-and-open-source-software-an-investment-or-an-expense-19f187db8d5a

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 hour ago (1 children)

Explain volunteers then.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 hour ago* (last edited 1 hour ago)

Where did you get volunteers from?

It's about people on the maintainers list, and those are paid.

That it's open software doesn't mean people are working for free.