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We're not doing this for money, but we would love to quit our jobs in finance and tech, and work on this full time. Are they actually being paid for work in fi
by mhb 4y ago
We're not doing this for money, but we would love to quit our jobs in finance and tech, and work on this full time.
Are they actually being paid for work in finance and tech? Can that be open sourced? In the name of ethical purity, will they only be accepting funds from work that is arranging physical objects like laying bricks, plumbing, carpentry, etc.?
- svnpenn 4y agoNext time you want to argue in bad faith, maybe don't be so blatant about it? https://wikipedia.org/wiki/No_true_Scotsman https://wikipedia.org/wiki/No_true_Scotsman
- mhb 4y agoYeah. I don't think so. They want the information that others have created to be free - whee... But they're 1) being paid for their non-physical, presumably proprietary, creative efforts and 2) think people should pay them (but I guess not from funds derived based on the protection of IP) so they can pursue some different intellectual pursuit.
- Ensorceled 4y agoIt's actually the "Tu Quoque" fallacy (or the hypocrisy fallacy). But it is ironic, at least, that the organization is asking for money ...
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