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Sure, but the perception exists - whether you like it or not.
by doctor_eval 3y ago
Sure, but the perception exists - whether you like it or not.
- rwmj 3y agoPeople have wrong ideas about all sorts of things, that doesn't mean we need to perpetuate them.
- pjmlp 3y agoJust like people feel entitled to use for free, stuff that only exists because, Facebook, Google, Apple, Oracle, IBM, Microsoft, Amazon, Sony, Nintendo, ARM, Intel, AMD, NVidia,.... put engineering time to make it happen in some form or function. Then they come to online forums, 70's style, showing the finger to the man, while taking the fruits of that work. Yes, they don't do it out of interest for the community, rather as a path to shepherd devs into their ecosystems. Yet, angry forks of their products usually die a slow death, as bills have to be paid and doing long nights isn't for everyone. Because like it or not, many FOSS products only exist thanks to big corps money. Even GNU/Linux itself, only really took off, as big corps decided it was a cheaper way to develop UNIX like OSes, than their own, and not tainted by BSD lawsuit.