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it's disturbing how many people blindly agree with you.
free and open does not mean open menu to make money from.
I shared this comment on Lemmy with the full intention to allow the community to benefit from it, not for a company with an inflated valuation of $1.2B to steal, bottle, and sell to the world.
Maybe that’s what you believe, but allowing commercial use has been a core tenant of free and open source software
no it hasn't. the first instance of open source anything was a major manufacturer(Ford) strong arming the patent office into forcing a patent holder to give up the rights to his patent effectively making it worthless.
only then to create a shell company (Motor Vehicle Manufacturers Association) that would then hold the rights to the patent and share it with all motor vehicle manufacturers.
it was all a grift to get the patent away from the original holder so that Ford would directly benefit from it because they didn't have an engineering team capable enough to design an engine that didn't infringe upon the original patent.
because of this we have had zero to no true innovation on engine designs outside of a racetrack (which also directly benefits the manufacturer).
so don't go spouting that FOSS has always been about being an equalizing factor to intellectual property rights, because if anything it's the exact opposite.