https://lemmy.ml/post/13864821

I’d understand if they were a random user, but a mod should already have at least some understanding about a community’s topic.

But worse to me are their comments in that post calling the people responding “childish trolls in this community”. I do not think that this is appropriate for a moderator.

  • Lmaydev@programming.dev
    92·
    7 months ago

    Open source doesn’t mean foss.

    I think people being such zealots about getting paid is actually a huge problem with the open source community.

    Giant corporations should absolutely pay to use these projects that are often labours of love done in spare time.

    • onlinepersona@programming.devEnglish
      72·
      7 months ago

      The purists and the zealots are the worst part of any community. If the real source (aka not obfuscated) is openly available with no access restrictions like “send me an email to get the source code”, then it’s opensource in my book. “Free” and “Libre” are just additional attributes for a subclass of opensource.

      class Opensource {}
interface IsFree {}
interface IsLibre {}

class FOSS extends Opensource implements IsFree {}
class FLOSS extends Opensource implements IsFree, IsLibre {}

      It’s really simple.

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