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ThrowawayR2last Friday at 3:59 PM1 replyview on HN

Open Source (as opposed to Free Software) was intended to be friendly to business and early FOSS fans pushed for corporate adoption for all they were worth. It's a classic "leopards ate my face" moment that somehow took a couple of decades for the punchline to land: "'I never thought capitalists would exploit MY open source,' sobs developer who advocated for the Businesses Exploiting Open Source movement."


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lwhilast Friday at 4:58 PM

I'm not sure I follow your line of reasoning.

The exploited are in the wrong for not recognising they're going to be exploited?

A pretty twisted point of view, in my opinion.

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