• Sylvartas@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    10 hours ago

    There is an entire sub-industry and probably thousands of jobs being propped up by this stupid way of thinking about software. I can’t be mad at it because it pays the bills for a few of my friends…

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        8 hours ago

        At one point my company made us buy Eclipse from a vendor because free software was not allowed. It had no tweaks or support, just out of date Eclipse that I had to wait for purchasing to get

        • arcterus@piefed.blahaj.zone
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          2 hours ago

          Whenever I hear about shit like this I wonder if I should just start a company and package free software lol. Could like donate a bunch of the profit to the actual projects.

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        7 hours ago

        I could really see companies just fork open source and give it a tweak like UI or new switches…

        They should not be able to do that if it comes under non commercial licence