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this post was submitted on 15 Sep 2023
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This is absolutely not unpopular. Free software buys more porsches to incompetent business schools alumni than windows...
Well known, sad and frustrating
You should be aware that much of the effort of some big players like oracle and even microsoft goes into Linux. I am not aware of how this is for other FOSS projects but I would assume many companies have embraced open source. This may not be out of the goodness of their hearts but they definitely pour a lot of effort into these ojects and I think that is the beauty of FOSS, but also the beauty of the free market.
I believe many open source projects that are used by large corporations find a way to make money with that, at least by offering support or consulting or with sponsorships.
There are volunteer projects of which the developer doesn't profit of but are used by corporations but I doubt they are the "largest" transfer as written in the post.
I thought AWS is built on hosting open source projects too.
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That would have required a lot more of my labor than I was willing to give to it.
Every time I see this meme format, my brain plays a clip of "But you don't have to take my word for it."
Take a look, it's in a book...
Closed licenses are arguably better for certain left projects, particularly self-contained ones. You can use bourgeois legal nonsense to stop corpos from using your work.
I've seen anti-war people write open source code that ended up getting used to help fly war drones.
Closed licenses are arguably better for certain left projects
What about licenses that restrict the software from being used in a certain way? I think I've heard of at least one open-source license that disallows the software from being used in the military industry.
I mean yeah that's cool but are you really going to sue Lockheed-Martin? Like realistically if they wanted to they could take your code, say its theirs and what are you gonna do about it?
A license that has restrictions like that doesn't meet the criteria to call itself "open source."
Free/libre software is not the same as open source, but I agree that it is difficult to enforce prohibitions with source available.
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