• lad
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    356 months ago

    This is a bit of “no true Scotsman” fallacy. If something you volunteer for hasn’t been monetized you can always say ‘yet’

    FOSS is something people volunteer for and it mostly doesn’t get monetized and cut off. Sometimes this means that the original is cut off but a fork lives on, so I would rather say that volunteering for a closed product is dangerous in that regard, not volunteering forany product

    • BreakDecks
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      126 months ago

      This is where licensing is important. If you want to contribute your time to something you think is important, make sure that your contributions are licensed to be open and free.

      If a for-profit company violates the license, the contributors can fight back. If there is no license, you’re just giving them free labor that they can exploit however they please.