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> Though I imagine that only works so far as you feel you can trust the Foundation to stick to those principles, so that's complicated. :D At the end of the da
by bawolff 2y ago
> Though I imagine that only works so far as you feel you can trust the Foundation to stick to those principles, so that's complicated. :D
At the end of the day, WMF is made up of people, and people follow incentives. I'm not saying they are bad people, but they aren't saints either. They are just people like anyone else.
It might not happen today, but 5 or 10 years from now, i'm not so sure. Eventually there will be some situation where people involved will have to chose between something for the public good vs something that sells enterprise APIs better. If WMF becomes dependent on the enterprise money, it will be hard to chose the public good. When that day comes, the enshitification begins.
After all, google once claimed not to be evil. The motto didn't last.