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Re:The people holding up the internet by colesantiago on Thursday October 08, 2026 @03:38AM (#50002889)
I mean, it is called "Free software", it has been made purely for free.

Now AI has made software abundant, there really isn't any need to pay maintainers really.

Enterprises can just fork it, rebuild the software for their own needs and not contribute anything back.

Even if the license is AGPL, they ignore it anyway and it is unenforceable.

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Re:The people holding up the internet by drybjed on Thursday October 08, 2026 @03:43AM (#50002921)
Free as in "free speech", not free as in "free beer".
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Re:The people holding up the internet by colesantiago on Thursday October 08, 2026 @11:54AM (#50007390)
Both.

In the age of AI, vibe coding and cloning software, I don’t think this matters anymore.

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