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It’s baffling to me that you can frame a $1200 gift to FOSS projects as “ugly”. I think it’s reasonable to grant humans agency. If they don’t want it they don’
by theptip 8mo ago
It’s baffling to me that you can frame a $1200 gift to FOSS projects as “ugly”.
I think it’s reasonable to grant humans agency. If they don’t want it they don’t have to take it. It’s pretty obviously a huge net positive.
- Balinares 8mo agoUgly may be a strong word, but upon reading the title, the first thought that came to me was that they'd done some self-examination and decided to finally do the ethical thing about all the open source training data without which their proprietary product would plain and simply not exist. In comparison, a program that grants time-limited credits to a few high-visibility projects reads like a self-serving marketing move no matter how you slice it.
- AshamedCaptain 8mo agoWhat baffles to me is the people who think that "gifts" should never be criticized. I mean, suppose Adobe decides to gift "$1200" value in Adobe products/subscriptions to all subscribers of the gimp-users mailing list. Can I criticize that?
- vntok 8mo agoWhat would you find deserving to be criticized about such a gift?
- theptip 8mo agoI’m sure you can; grumpy people can criticize anything. I just think it’s a waste of emotional energy to get worked up about what’s very obviously a net positive. And I did not say gifts should never be criticized; “here have this free crack cocaine” would obviously be immoral. Don’t do the HN overgeneralization thing.