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SF ads call out tech firms for not paying for open source (www.theregister.com)

submitted 1 year ago by neme@lemm.ee to c/opensource@programming.dev

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[–] bjoern_tantau@swg-empire.de 17 points 1 year ago (1 children)

On the one hand I like the sentiment of paying for open source software. But on the other hand the free part of free software is kind of very on the nose.

[–] Maalus@lemmy.world 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)

The free part means freedom. Not lack of payment.

[–] bjoern_tantau@swg-empire.de 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

And those companies use the freedom.