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[–] Maoo@hexbear.net 1 points 2 years ago (11 children)

Closed licenses are arguably better for certain left projects, particularly self-contained ones. You can use bourgeois legal nonsense to stop corpos from using your work.

I've seen anti-war people write open source code that ended up getting used to help fly war drones.

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[–] fosforus@sopuli.xyz -2 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Even in Stallman's visions open source was not hostile to making money at all, as long as the tenets are followed. Also, you might wanna read economics.

[–] Evilsandwichman@hexbear.net -5 points 2 years ago

Windows just keeps on winning

As for Linux, the word 'operating' in operating system is doing some REALLY heavy lifting here

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