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Re:Bruce Perens: Building a 'billion dollar' startup with Cr... by pjmlp on Wednesday July 28, 2021 @01:51PM (#27986954)
Being a 70's kid, the current state of open source feels very similar to the 70's freedom movements, where a large majority ended up working in offices Wall Street style during the 80's.

Maybe there is a lesson there regarding human behaviour, and attitudes regarding the need of income in capitalist societies.

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Re:Bruce Perens: Building a 'billion dollar' startup with Cr... by ThrowawayR2 on Wednesday July 28, 2021 @03:31PM (#27988598)
FOSS used to be about developers scratching an itch but now it's about developers who are itching to get scratch, hohoho.

(For non-English speakers, "scratch" was formerly popular slang for money in the US.)

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Re:Bruce Perens: Building a 'billion dollar' startup with Cr... by pjmlp on Thursday July 29, 2021 @01:43AM (#27993193)
To keep with my analogy, if you aren't on a community farm to live up with the ideals and show it to the man, eventually you will need to scratch to get something from the supermarket.
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