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Re:Goodbye from a Linux Community Volunteer by bigfatkitten on Thursday October 24, 2024 @05:05PM (#41939772)
Not at all, and here's a personal example.

I submit patches to projects operated by companies all the time, and I generally don't care who runs the project (whether it's a company or a hobbyist). I do this only because it benefits me directly. It probably helps other people too, but they're not my problem. The company making money is also not my problem.

I fix a bug or add a feature, which I was going to do anyway. I get that change merged upstream. I can then happily use my Linux distribution's packages (or some other downstream dependency) without wasting monstrous amounts of time replacing those packages with my own locally maintained version.

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