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Re:Free and open source software projects are in transition by User23 on Monday July 31, 2023 @12:33PM (#36945140)
As usual when it comes to computing freedom, RMS was right[1]. "Open Source" was conceived as a way to market to corporate executives. It's unsurprising then that corporate executives took it for exactly what they were sold it as, a way to get developers' work without paying for it.

[1] https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/open-source-misses-the-point....

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Re:Free and open source software projects are in transition by canucyc on Monday July 31, 2023 @12:43PM (#36945279)
RMS was and is a grandstander. Open source exists only to provide free code to human trafficking companies that hire slave labour abroad and onshore.
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Re:Free and open source software projects are in transition by canucyc on Monday July 31, 2023 @01:05PM (#36945634)
IP addresses if they were tracked on downvotes would be by companies who employ slave labor
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Re:Free and open source software projects are in transition by spankalee on Monday July 31, 2023 @12:46PM (#36945338)
I personally get paid to work on open source, which is the opposite of what you're claiming here.
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Re:Free and open source software projects are in transition by pessimizer on Monday July 31, 2023 @12:53PM (#36945440)
Rather, it's unsurprising that corporate executives took Open Source for exactly what it was designed as.

It's left the anti-copyleft guys babbling about plunder and The Spirit of Open Source™. I'm honestly shocked that I don't hear them calling companies that get rich off OSS "settler colonialists."

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