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Open Source Infrastructure is Breaking Down Due to Corporate Freeloading
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this post was submitted on 25 Sep 2025
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You cannot be open source and also gate keepy. Free and open is free and open.
Helps to read the actual article before commenting. The freeloading refers to corporations hammering hosting infrastructure run by volunteers.
So you gonna stalk me on lemmy now because you don’t like something I said in a different thread?
You responded to his post. It's not stalking when he gets a notification you commented on something he posted.
That would be why I deleted the comment not sure why you’re commenting on that
You cannot have your cake and eat it too.
I'm gonna take a shot and guess you've never run infrastructure in your life if you can't differentiate between a product covered by a license and a service offered as a courtesy.
What? This isn't about hiding the code and making it unavailable. It's saying that they don't need to pay for some very profitable corporation to use obscene amounts of their bandwidth.
Basically it's you get so many downloads before your throttled and deprioritized. Don't download the same thing hundreds of times over and over everyday.