• Azure@beehaw.org
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    1 year ago

    as true as this is, it means the developers are the ones with more power to stop things being taken over, and clearly as you said, they won’t.

    truth is it means you can’t trust open source devs who touch with for-profit money at all, they’re all as corpo and crooked and are willing to sell everyone out for themselves.

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      1 year ago

      I was trying to be a little kinder, but yeah, that’s my general opinion.

      It’s one reason I like code that’s actually owned by a foundation/organization that has all that pesky oversight and meetings and politicking because it makes things MUCH harder to be unilaterally sold out from under their users: it DOES happen, but it’s not just writing a check to one guy and hey presto next week your shit is broken/infested with malware/vanishes without a trace.

      They have their own problems and require funding to actually operate as intended, but it’s at least a layer between the ‘I made this’ meme and the users of the software.