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> the model where big companies have their technology stacks underpinned by charity is ridiculous Worse: they are exploiting people's good intentions. They co
by some_anon_dude 6y ago
> the model where big companies have their technology stacks underpinned by charity is ridiculous
Worse: they are exploiting people's good intentions.
They co-opted the Free Software movement.
Copyleft has been painted as "business-unfriendly" and replaced with permissive licenses - aka unpaid labor without "strings attached".
> They need to learn to pony up and start funding the "free" software they use
...instead they even dodge taxes.