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Re:Limitarianism: The Case Against Extreme Wealth: Ingrid Ro... by tsimionescu on Friday February 02, 2024 @04:51PM (#39234959)
And yet, all of those examples are critically dependent on huge pieces of infrastructure created and distributed for free by people motivated simply by craftsmanship - Linux, the BSD kernels and many other similar things.
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Re:Limitarianism: The Case Against Extreme Wealth: Ingrid Ro... by kuratkull on Saturday February 03, 2024 @02:50AM (#39238336)
These two ideas are not in conflict. You can create something and give it away free, or you can ask money. Many SWEs do both - eg. open-source for fun, proprietary at work.
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