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If you are in FOSS for the money, you are not in FOSS. Humanity could be sat around eating fruit and making art, instead we have mortgages and credit scores, b
by hcrean 4y ago
If you are in FOSS for the money, you are not in FOSS.
Humanity could be sat around eating fruit and making art, instead we have mortgages and credit scores, because the venal systems corrupt and extortionate the progressive ones.
- caramelcustard 4y agoWe have mortgages and credit scores because the aformentioned humanity more often than not lacks the responsibility to assess both the financial capabilities of those who borrow the money and the evaluation capabilities of those who lend.
- hcrean 4y agoThis is a late stage cause. There are also many early stage causes.
- caramelcustard 4y ago"Shepherds, Merchants, and Credit: Some Observations on Lending Practices in Ur III Mesopotamia" https://www.jstor.org/stable/25165020 https://www.jstor.org/stable/25165020 Late stage, huh?
- crygin 4y agoHow long do you think that humans have existed?
- caramelcustard 4y agoDepends on what humans we're talking about. 200k years, if we talk Homo Sapiens.
- RcouF1uZ4gsC 4y ago
- IntelMiner 4y agoI think there's a middle ground to wanting to make money or contribute to humanity and not being a fucking sexual predator
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- trasz 4y ago>The flag bearer of FOSS is Richard Stallman Open Source was literally created as an alternative to Stallman's Free Software.
- CRConrad 4y agoSo he's still the flag bearer of half of FOSS; the first and last letters are for Free Software.