Like it seems with many people right now, you clearly don't understand what FOSS is.
sparseMatrix
joined 2 years ago
Yeah but you are imagining their motives and predicating their future actions on the products of your imagination.
None of that is happening for any of those reasons. This makes any outcomes you anticipate, well, I'll be kind and leave it at 'unlikely'.
I think it's one more incentive not to use mastodon.
Whats more is this: People who sign up to work on a FOSS project should have 0 anticipation, ZERO ANTICIPATION of being paid for their work on that project.
Start a consultancy around it? Sure. Charge to host instances? You bet. Combine those things with other value adds? Certainly. A patreon to facilitate a living while working on FOSS code? questionable. Insist on payment (that's patreon, people) to push your FOSS contributions to the public? Sorry that is NOT FOSS.
Expect to be paid for FOSS contributions? Maybe you should look up the definition of FOSS, then maybe do something to experience the community. It's about creating and donating value to the community, for the sake of that community, not self enrichment.
The concern is retaliation for the crap perpetrated by the software authors who nuked disks based on the IP address appearing to be Russ. That misguided and unethical attempt at armchair warfighting cost far more to the people fighting the Russ than it did the Russ themselves.
It's a fucking war , people. It involves us all, like it or not, because that is how the aggressor has played it.
You can tell when you're in a fight when a thug is punching you in the face. That you don't choose to respond in your defense doesn't mean you're not involved. It just means you're an idiot taking an ass kicking.
"Erode the US Dollar"
That's been going on for some time. Both China and Russia have been quietly divesting themselves of the US Dollar for some years. It isn't really news, but it makes great propaganda, because it's true and relevant and can be disconnected from time in such a way that it can be leveraged as needed to show what a bunch of weak ass punks we Americans must surely be.
On a different note, that sword you're yanking on is the still rooted tooth of a sleeping dragon.
WTF are you even on about
WAIT I THOUGHT YOU WERE GOING TO EXPRESS AN ACTUAL OPINION
...and everyone will get fed, but the producers will reap the rewards of war profiteering.
Just another reason to bend us over at the cash register for a loaf of bread and a box of pasta.
Which is actually how 'Linux', in the common useage, is used.
Idk, but all the cool kids that started doing it are old
Really though, if you want to mark a proper line between them, Linux is the kernel+a certain few libraries, and nothing more.
At one time, almost everything else was GNU. A lot of code has been written since then by folks who neither recognize nor see a need for the distinction.
All that's left at this point is politics.
My suggestion is 1. Stop being so fruitlessly pedantic and 2. Don't worry about it. The statute of limitations has run out ;)
Sure, just quit calling it free and open source software