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Is it appropriate for someone to be a mod here when they don't understand open source, and insult users in the community? (programming.dev)
submitted 6 months ago by SheeEttin@programming.dev to c/opensource@lemmy.ml
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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.

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[-] TimeSquirrel@kbin.social 4 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

There's nothing wrong with charging for your FOSS. You can't, however, force anybody who gets it from you to also charge the people they end up distributing it to like some sort of Ponzi scheme. The transactional relationship between you, your software, and another party ends at the first level.

[-] squid_slime@lemm.ee 3 points 6 months ago

This is what I had thought, where I was confused was the vast amount of comments in the linked post stating flatly that charging for software went against foss

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