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You mean that they want to make some money?

• vog 9y ago
  Do you imply that in general, the (perfectly valid) desire to make money would have justified bad behaviour towards a community? In general, if you have a community around your comany, you can do it properly, or you can do it Oracle style. (pushing MySQL, OpenOffice, OpenSolaris, etc. into forks or death). So the question is only whether Cognitect is good or bad for the community, not whether they make money or not. Making money is not a good excuse of bad behaviour. And while we are at it, doing voluntary work isn't a good excuse for bad behaviour, either, but that's another topic. Having said that, I don't see where Cognitect is bad for the community. Rather, they seem to interact very well with the community.
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  • sooheon 9y ago
    > Do you imply that in general, the (perfectly valid) desire to make money would have justified bad behaviour towards a community? But the OP made insinuations that the act of selling software was de facto negative to the community. It is only necessary to point out that making money is not automatically harmful to the community.