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Re:Forgejo: A self-hosted lightweight software forge by fluoridation on Sunday January 19, 2025 @01:03PM (#42759568)
>Yet it seems equally unethical to enable the corporate extractavism that we now see.

If someone uses and benefits from your product, at what point does it become "unethical extractivism"? If I as an individual figure out a way to build a business centered around your product that you make for free, is that already unethical, or is it at a later point?

>It doesn't seem controversial that we tend to find it problematic if another uses us as means to their ends without our consent.

But you gave your consent by publishing software for anyone to use.

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