No, I'm not the bitter AC. I posted under it specifically so that people would realize that I'm not the only one with the same sentiment. Do you really believe that I'm the only person in the last 20 years to realize that the open source movement has been co-opted by the big companies and that there is no other way forward to make money for small independent developers except to go to a closed-source license if they want to make money selling their fostfare, because RMS was full of crap?
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(Score: 2) by barbara hudson on Wednesday March 11 2020, @04:18PM (2 children)
No, I'm not the bitter AC. I posted under it specifically so that people would realize that I'm not the only one with the same sentiment. Do you really believe that I'm the only person in the last 20 years to realize that the open source movement has been co-opted by the big companies and that there is no other way forward to make money for small independent developers except to go to a closed-source license if they want to make money selling their fostfare, because RMS was full of crap?
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(Score: 2, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday March 12 2020, @12:55AM
Do you really believe that I'm the only person in the last 20 years to realize...
No, with the Sith there are always two
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday April 06 2020, @06:23PM
Shows what you know https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/open-source-misses-the-point.html [gnu.org]
RMS never talked about financial viability that I know of, feel free to provide your own citations.