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Re:Open source ‘protestware’ harms Open Source by nonameiguess on Thursday March 24, 2022 @12:22PM (#30792046)
That doesn't have much to do with open source, though. Corporations selling proprietary stuff are more than happy to slap slogans and hashtags all over it to promote their devotion to some political cause of the day. Unlike open source "as-is no warranty clauses," their licenses tend to come with a guarantee saying they can't just stop working or break the rest of your system on purpose, though, and if they do, you get a support engineer helping you until it's fixed.

Really, even that doesn't have much to do with open source, since companies exist that develop entirely open source products but offer paid support and enterprise contracts with warranties and guarantees. What this really damages is the reputation of ecosystems that rely upon foundational libraries made by hobbyists and one-man operations as weekend side projects.

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