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> What do you expect from FOSS "suppliers"? That if it breaks I get to keep both pieces. Or I can fix it if I’m able. What I don’t expect is for them to inten
by UncleEntity 4y ago
> What do you expect from FOSS "suppliers"?
That if it breaks I get to keep both pieces. Or I can fix it if I’m able.
What I don’t expect is for them to intentionally break things and/or just pull the rug out from underneath everyone because “they’re well within their rights”. Sometimes being a dick is just being a dick.
Too many people seem to think they have some right to make money by giving away their labor for free because people take them up on their offer of free labor. Don’t want to work for free then don’t work for free. Don’t want the richest corporations in the world using your software without contributing back then don’t offer it to them under a license where they can do this. Easy peasy.
- cuu508 4y ago> Too many people seem to think they have some right to make money by giving away their labor for free because people take them up on their offer of free labor. Can you point to some specific examples?
- UncleEntity 4y agoPretty much every article saying the FLOSS model is broken because someone builds a tool, releases it under a permissive license and isn’t sharing in the bounty of what the users create on top of it. Like TFA.
- cuu508 4y agoTFA does not say the FLOSS model is broken.