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Re:Discord vs. IRC Rough Notes by squigz on Friday July 12, 2024 @10:54PM (#40951407)
Your point was that inevitably a company's interests will outweigh any other motivation. When this happens, and a platform starts going to shit, FOSS would enable users to either easily migrate to a new platform, or just fork the platform itself into something new.

(Not that type of free)

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Re:Discord vs. IRC Rough Notes by solidsnack9000 on Saturday July 13, 2024 @08:48AM (#40953793)
The problem is not just that a company's interests outweigh any other motivation -- it's that those interests are what lead to resources being allocated in the first place. FOSS doesn't address the problem because people don't get paid by FOSS.
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