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1. Râu Cao ⚡ (raucao@kosmos.social)'s status on Tuesday, 14-Dec-2021 07:08:25 UTC Râu Cao ⚡

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   PuTTY maintainer on his free software being exploited by profitable companies:

   > I don't feel exploited, or undervalued, when my free software is used by companies without paying me. It's not some kind of accident that I made it possible for them to do that. It was on purpose, in the hope that they would.

   https://andrewducker.dreamwidth.org/4085856.html?thread=28352864#cmt28352864

   /ht @codewiz

   • Bernie (codewiz@mstdn.io)'s status on Tuesday, 14-Dec-2021 07:08:03 UTC Bernie

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     @khaosgrille @raucao @lain I think authors of free software still expect payment for professional support.

     The author of PuTTY is being approached by companies wanting him to sign some support agreement. I wouldn't turn them down the offer if it came with adequate compensation.

     RMS himself endorses this business model for free software (which has always been RedHat's primary revenue model, by the way).

   • Grillchens Tagebuch (khaosgrille@fedi.absturztau.be)'s status on Tuesday, 14-Dec-2021 07:08:14 UTC Grillchens Tagebuch

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     @lain @raucao @codewiz a surprising amount of people are dumb
   • decentralized scrutenizer (lain@lain.com)'s status on Tuesday, 14-Dec-2021 07:08:23 UTC decentralized scrutenizer

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     @raucao @codewiz a surprising amount of free software fans hate it when people don't pay for it
   • Grillchens Tagebuch (khaosgrille@fedi.absturztau.be)'s status on Tuesday, 14-Dec-2021 18:34:51 UTC Grillchens Tagebuch

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     @raucao @lain @codewiz agree on that one but many people were more trustfull
   • Râu Cao ⚡ (raucao@kosmos.social)'s status on Tuesday, 14-Dec-2021 18:34:54 UTC Râu Cao ⚡

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     @khaosgrille @lain @codewiz If you sleep with the devil, that's on you. I never understood why anyone would use CentOS or contribute to it, if they weren't paid for that.

   • Grillchens Tagebuch (khaosgrille@fedi.absturztau.be)'s status on Tuesday, 14-Dec-2021 18:34:55 UTC Grillchens Tagebuch

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     @raucao @lain @codewiz there was a big outrage by many non-commercial users because they felt forgotten ignored, and when they contributed to the project even worse. u might have another view but pretending there is no controversy is weird
   • Râu Cao ⚡ (raucao@kosmos.social)'s status on Tuesday, 14-Dec-2021 18:34:58 UTC Râu Cao ⚡

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     @khaosgrille @lain @codewiz Red Hat engineers work on Linux as a normal full-time job. And most CentOS contributors most likely had business interests in CentOS as well. Still not controversial to me.

   • Grillchens Tagebuch (khaosgrille@fedi.absturztau.be)'s status on Tuesday, 14-Dec-2021 18:34:59 UTC Grillchens Tagebuch

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     @raucao @codewiz @lain i think it has become controversial since IBM bought redhat and centos died. but thats less support model and more the rest of their modell
   • Râu Cao ⚡ (raucao@kosmos.social)'s status on Tuesday, 14-Dec-2021 18:35:01 UTC Râu Cao ⚡

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     @codewiz @khaosgrille @lain Yes, of course. But that's not controversial at all about the whole topic.