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1. Jan Wildeboer 😷:krulorange: (jwildeboer@social.wildeboer.net)'s status on Wednesday, 26-Jun-2024 15:48:29 UTC Jan Wildeboer 😷:krulorange:

   YES, you can develop, support open source/Free Software (FOSS) projects as an unpaid hobby, just for fun.

   YES, you can develop and support #FOSS projects as (big or small) part of your paid job or as freelancer.

   YES, you can develop and support FOSS projects by asking for donations.

   And yes, all of these approaches can exist at the same time. YOU decide. FOSS is about freedom, not about money or not.

   And NO, you owe no-one an explanation or justification on why you do #FOSS the way you do.

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   • Bernd Paysan R.I.P Natenom 🕯️ (forthy42@mastodon.net2o.de)'s status on Wednesday, 26-Jun-2024 15:48:31 UTC Bernd Paysan R.I.P Natenom 🕯️

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     @jwildeboer Also note that RedHat complains about people who build clones of RHEL that they "add no value". But they operate under the license and spirit (!) of FOSS. So it is not your business to ask them for even an explanation of what they do. They have the right to do that, and I'd you don't like it, you can stop taking FOSS for your "looks like proprietary software, feels like it, is priced like it, but actually is FOSS".

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   • Bernd Paysan R.I.P Natenom 🕯️ (forthy42@mastodon.net2o.de)'s status on Wednesday, 26-Jun-2024 15:48:32 UTC Bernd Paysan R.I.P Natenom 🕯️

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     @jwildeboer Except the author. When you make FOSS as unpaid hobby, and a big company takes it, violates the spirit of FOSS, and tries to navigate through loopholes in the license to maximise their profit, THEN you have every right to demand an explanation.

     "The tragedy of the commons" is mostly wrong, but it has one valid point: once big corp tries to use commons to maximize their profits, they will in the process destroy it.

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