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    What FOSS does to a mf'er (not that it's a bad thing) (pawb.social)
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    [–] [email protected] 28 points 1 year ago

    Turns out pure profit incentive only goes so far in incentivising "quality products and services", and after a while it becomes literally mandatory to be an asshole in order to continue following the profit.

    Even paid Libre projects (of which there are a couple) tend to be less dickish than their blackbox cousins, after all, if they were chasing maximum profit and infinite growth, they wouldn't be a libre project now would they?