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Nobody owes me anything but eaach and every on of us owe something to the FOSS community.

• jhall1468 8y ago
  No, we don't. The FOSS community operates on the idea that people that want to contribute to it (financially, programming, etc) can do so. Nothing about open source obligates that behavior, outside of certain licenses. Nobody "owes" FOSS anything either, that's up to them.
  • gkya 8y ago
    It is really shocking people can think this way when also making use of hundreds of people's free labour, and when the very existence of most of programming careers are a direct product of OSS innovation. Hopefuly this attitude is not the widespread one.
    • collyw 8y ago
      Plenty of people get paid to work on OSS. I imagine that Linus is pretty well compensated.
    • jhall1468 8y ago
      Those people are volunteering their time. I'm one of them. But that doesn't mean owed something as a result, that's absurd. I made OSS because I wanted to.