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minus-squarejol@discuss.tchncs.delinkfedilinkarrow-up13·11 hours agoOf course. Because when we’re all the little guys and helping each other, it’s fair. Now you have trillion dollar companies making demands of your project but donating zero dollars to it, and it feel much less fair.
minus-squarehperrin@lemmy.calinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up7·10 hours agoWe’re under no obligation to bend to the demands of trillion dollar companies.
minus-squarejol@discuss.tchncs.delinkfedilinkarrow-up3·7 hours agoSure. But their deves still create lots of noise in open source projects and you don’t always know where they work.
Of course. Because when we’re all the little guys and helping each other, it’s fair. Now you have trillion dollar companies making demands of your project but donating zero dollars to it, and it feel much less fair.
We’re under no obligation to bend to the demands of trillion dollar companies.
Sure. But their deves still create lots of noise in open source projects and you don’t always know where they work.
True. That’s a good point.