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0 pointsrvz3y ago0 comments

> That all is a lot of nonsense

It is the cold, brutal truth that is happening right now in the free software / open source ecosystem. Totally accurate.

> this is an instance of Microsoft paying an open source developer to maintain open source.

You might as well put binary blobs in a GitHub repo and call it 'open-source' or / and have telemetry baked in stealing our usage data since the term 'open-source' not only misses the point, but it is quite frankly meaningless at this point.

But we all knew that the tech-bros have hijacked the point of open-source whilst the free software movement have failed to stop all of it.

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Crysstalis3y ago

The cold brutal truth is that open source developers need jobs too. That has always been the case.

>You might as well put binary blobs in a GitHub repo and call it 'open-source'

But this has not happened.

>and have telemetry baked in stealing our usage data

This is not related. I don't think there is any open source or free software that will ever stop that. They actually don't want to stop it. They would consider stopping that to be a violation of the OSD "no discrimination against fields of endeavor" criteria or the FSF "freedom zero".

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