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[-] Sharmat@beehaw.org 4 points 1 year ago

In November 2020, Marak had warned that he will no longer be supporting the big corporations with his "free work" and that commercial entities should consider either forking the projects or compensating the dev with a yearly "six figure" salary.

Honestly, I do think he has a point here. These are corporations that use FOSS to make millions off of it, but contribute nothing back, either in code or in monetary support. While I don’t condone his means to try to get that (i.e.intentionally breaking compatibility), he is morally justified in this request.

[-] timbuck2themoon@sh.itjust.works 3 points 1 year ago
  1. Any company or even Dev worth their salt would have an artifact proxy so this doesn't happen.
  2. yeah, js could use an actual standard library so every trivial thing doesn't need npm.
[-] gary_host_laptop@lemmy.ml 2 points 3 years ago

capitalism: does shit someone: open source bad

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