• delirious_owl@discuss.online
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    3 hours ago

    This is how open source is supposed to work. Everything they’re doing is now going to improve the open source codebase. This is good.

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      Not at all, really. Forking is fine and building a business off of it is fine (I don’t personally see the value in it but apparently Y Combinator saw fit to invest in this so what do I know). Where they fucked up was replacing the existing free software license with some “AI” generated mumbo jumbo, because they were “too busy building” to “bother with legal.”

      You didn’t have to “bother” with creating a license, because there already was one. No one in free software should be rolling their own custom license (GPT generation aside) because there exist perfectly good ones already.

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        2 hours ago

        How is it boot licking to get money from rich people to develop open source software?

        Lemmy is FOSS that was funded by a grant from NLNet. Its the same outcome as this.

        If anyone is licking boots, its the rich people licking the FOSS boots

        • nek0d3r@lemmy.world
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          Except this isn’t money going to a FOSS project, it’s money to some guys whose only keyboard is StackOverflow’s The Key.