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The mission has always been "to improve the free and open source ecosystem", not just "to make a cool code forge". On many occasions (e.g. [0][1]) I have made i
by ddevault 6y ago
The mission has always been "to improve the free and open source ecosystem", not just "to make a cool code forge". On many occasions (e.g. [0][1]) I have made it clear that the goal is to invest our profits back into the broader open source ecosystem.
[0]: https://lists.sr.ht/~sircmpwn/sr.ht-discuss/%3C20190426160729.GC1351%40homura.localdomain%3E https://lists.sr.ht/~sircmpwn/sr.ht-discuss/%3C2019042616072...
[1]: https://lists.sr.ht/~sircmpwn/sr.ht-discuss/%3CBVRVZEWYB30Q.3HGIC803LDBH7%40homura%3E https://lists.sr.ht/~sircmpwn/sr.ht-discuss/%3CBVRVZEWYB30Q....
I would rather not be the kind of company which pockets millions for its founders and investors with money built on the backs of the FOSS community. An explicit, stated goal is to spread the wealth and raise up the ecosystem as a whole. If you don't believe in that, then don't pay for it, it's your money. SourceHut-the-software-forge is not going to be any worse off because we spend $5K giving PeerTube a leg up. We spend more on that for a single build host for builds.sr.ht.
- carapace 6y agoJust FYI, I'm a paying customer of sr.ht and I'm glad to support what you do. You're awesome and I think this bootstrap fund is a great use of resources. Good job!
- ddevault 6y agoThanks <3
- Proven 6y ago> I would rather not be the kind of company which pockets millions for its founders and investors with money built on the backs of the FOSS community. It is called FOSS because the community doesn't mind what people do with the software. If you contribute with the expectation that users be obliged to do something in return, you (just like RMS) don't get it.