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Paying Netflix or not won't keep the lights on for FreeSBD, no matter how you think about it. Donating to FreeBSD Foundation directly contributes to that AND to

Paying Netflix or not won't keep the lights on for FreeSBD, no matter how you think about it. Donating to FreeBSD Foundation directly contributes to that AND to the future Netflixes for them to provide valuable services to you.

na85 8y ago
Why am I double-contributing if these hugely profitable corporations won't even pay their fair share? Facebook steals my data and sells it, but I also need to subsidize the development of their instant messenger?
- tachion 8y ago
  You are still missing the point - you are not supposed to contribute based on what someone does or does not. You are supposed to contribute based on the fact that the project makes it possible for _anyone_ to do what they do thanks to the code being available free and without any commitments. That's why we contribute, because we see value in that. You can take the code, build Netflix v2.0 and donate all the profits to FreeBSD. Or none, you're completely free - that is the idea behind BSD (it would be very nice if you would, though ;)
  - na85 8y ago
    It's you who is missing the point. If Netflix et al paid their fair share, you would not have to spam every HN thread with this copypasta, and you would not have to be here trying to convince me to subsidize WhatsApp. I sure hope you spend as much time pestering the corporations that leech off community donations as you do defending your HN spam. Maybe with a better license that didn't enable such freeloading on the part of these gargantuan corporations, FreeBSD wouldn't need to go begging for donations from private citizens.
    - trasz 8y ago
      Problem is, any license that wouldn't enable such "freeloading" would not be Open Source. And as it turns out being Open Source is pretty important to FreeBSD community.
    - tachion 8y ago
      For some reason you insist on your actions towards party A being dependant on actions of party B, with whom party A has absolutely no connection. I think at this point we should agree that we disagree and part our ways in peace :)

na85 8y ago

Why am I double-contributing if these hugely profitable corporations won't even pay their fair share? Facebook steals my data and sells it, but I also need to subsidize the development of their instant messenger?

tachion 8y ago
You are still missing the point - you are not supposed to contribute based on what someone does or does not. You are supposed to contribute based on the fact that the project makes it possible for _anyone_ to do what they do thanks to the code being available free and without any commitments. That's why we contribute, because we see value in that. You can take the code, build Netflix v2.0 and donate all the profits to FreeBSD. Or none, you're completely free - that is the idea behind BSD (it would be very nice if you would, though ;)
- na85 8y ago
  It's you who is missing the point. If Netflix et al paid their fair share, you would not have to spam every HN thread with this copypasta, and you would not have to be here trying to convince me to subsidize WhatsApp. I sure hope you spend as much time pestering the corporations that leech off community donations as you do defending your HN spam. Maybe with a better license that didn't enable such freeloading on the part of these gargantuan corporations, FreeBSD wouldn't need to go begging for donations from private citizens.
  - trasz 8y ago
    Problem is, any license that wouldn't enable such "freeloading" would not be Open Source. And as it turns out being Open Source is pretty important to FreeBSD community.
  - tachion 8y ago
    For some reason you insist on your actions towards party A being dependant on actions of party B, with whom party A has absolutely no connection. I think at this point we should agree that we disagree and part our ways in peace :)