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I maintain or contribute to various FLOSS projects. The day FLOSS becomes profit-driven is the day I stop contributing. Profit and user freedom are two differe

I maintain or contribute to various FLOSS projects. The day FLOSS becomes profit-driven is the day I stop contributing. Profit and user freedom are two different priorities. Sometimes they are compatible, more often they are not.

arp242 6y ago
There is a difference between "profit-driven" and "spending untold hours getting very little in return while some of the people using this are literally some of the richest companies and people in the world". I am not at all money-driven; my current income is about €600/month, which is not much but a sustainable where I currently live, and in return I can work on open source/free software as I see fit. It's not what everyone would choose, but for me, it's good trade-off, right now away. I wrote a bit about this over here last week[1], but I think we really need to think more about money instead of treating it as the devil. [1]: https://lobste.rs/s/r5qaap/introducing_preql_new_relational#c_wqebka https://lobste.rs/s/r5qaap/introducing_preql_new_relational#...