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[–] [email protected] 4 points 9 months ago (4 children)

Not contributing is not necessarily freeloaders. Users have no obligation. That’s the point of open source. Only building off of open code and the closing yours off is freeloading.

Cambridge dictionary seems to disagree:

Describes pretty much what Oracle did for years. Now they are contributing to OpenELA, so in a weird turn of events the overall situation got better after a short period of uncertainty.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 9 months ago (2 children)

Hey, we are all freeloaders here. How many of us can say they've contributed to every single component of the stack we use everyday to get our cat memes? Like GRUB, the kernel, systemd/whatever you prefer, Mesa, X.Org/Wayland, your DE of choice, Firefox?

We can even make a profit by using these tools :D

[–] [email protected] 3 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Hey, we are all freeloaders here.

Speak for yourself. I've paid for FOSS to support development on multiple occasions.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago

I'm glad you do. I want to start contributing and donating too. But I do think the definition of freeloader is a bit adjusted for FOSS software.

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