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[-] Nakoichi@hexbear.net 1 points 1 year ago

people need to stop supporting projects with no potential for long-term profitability unless those projects can survive without any support from for-profit companies.

You see the contradiction here right?

[-] JuxtaposedJaguar@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 year ago

I don't. Could you elaborate?

[-] Nakoichi@hexbear.net 1 points 1 year ago

Open source projects have no potential for long term profitability unless those projects get support from for profit companies, thus compromising the nature of open source.

[-] JuxtaposedJaguar@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 year ago

Not all FOSS projects need to be profitable to survive. IOW if a project cannot survive without being profitable and it cannot be profitable long-term, then it cannot survive long-term.

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