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Sourcehut being a company is like calling a farmer's market stand a corporation.
by junon 3y ago
Sourcehut being a company is like calling a farmer's market stand a corporation.
- vips7L 3y agoLooks like a duck, swims like a duck…
- junon 3y agoWhat's your point? It's mainly drew working on a fully OSS project that he happens to host and accept money for doing. Is your beef with people making money for their work? Or with Megacorps? Because sourcehut isn't one, by a longshot.
- steve_rambo 3y agoThey have a history of doing things with negative financial consequences just to make a point on some sociopolitical issue. I can't remember a single "just another company" off the top of my head that conducts business in this way.
- porkbeer 3y agoBingo. While I might afree with some of their points, it seems a poor way to convey them.
- WhyNotHugo 3y agoIt's still a company. Just because it's a company that behaves ethically doesn't make it less of a company. It's just a very odd one.
- ksjskskskkk 3y agothat's missing the point. the farmer at the farmers market also have a tax code and pay sales taxes. by your logic you would also make a fool of yourself and call a farmer at a farmers market a corporation, just like you're making yourself look like a fool now defending that a tiny ethical opensource focused one person company is a corporation.
- LarryClapp 3y agoI don't follow. A "corporation" is just an entity that's filed articles of incorporation with the appropriate government office. You can have a single person that owns a corporation or LLC. (Source: I own an LLC.)
- Gormo 3y agoAt the end of the day, everything reduces to human beings interacting with each other. A corporation is just one method by which people coordinate their activities, not some separate entity that has its own independent existence or intentions. You can certainly draw distinctions between the consistency, reliability, and scalability of some people's way of organizing their activities vs. other people's, but that doesn't distinguish the underlying nature of what they are, just how good they are at organizing.