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[–] [email protected] 150 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (24 children)

This has been going on for decades. CDDB, IMDB, Redhat.

Anything you volunteer for will be monetized and you will get cut off from your own contributions.

Even here on Lemmy people post Twitter images and Reddit reader apps which only helps those platforms retain mindshare even if they aren't directly profiting with ads.

[–] [email protected] 30 points 11 months ago (7 children)

Hashicorp recently commandeered its community built products from thousands of contributors by changing open source projects to an ambiguous if not hostile BSL. Opentofu for any current terraform users out there.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 11 months ago (4 children)

Previously named OpenTF, OpenTofu is a fork of Terraform...

🤭 LOL @ the name change.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 11 months ago (2 children)

Reminds me of OpenMW for Morrowind being listed as "OpenMicrowave" on the Google app store

[–] [email protected] 3 points 11 months ago

They didn’t want people think OpenTF meant they were DownTF.

They totally are DTF, they just didn’t want you asking about it.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 11 months ago

And still being removed from the store

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