Free software might be better about this, but it is by no means free of it. NPM packages are the biggest offenders but “please donate / send me coffee / check o

Free software might be better about this, but it is by no means free of it. NPM packages are the biggest offenders but “please donate / send me coffee / check out my other projects / subscribe to this service” notes have been in installation scripts and sometimes within the application itself for years. Multiple packages stuffed their scripts full of Ukraine flags at the beginning of the war. So even free software isn’t immune to using the platform to advertise other things.