Paying people to work on open source is good actually - Jacob Kaplan-Moss
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If you have a problem with maintainers getting paid then you have a problem with me and I suggest you let that one marinate.
  • janAkali@lemmy.oneEnglish
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    6 months ago

    I meant that free software is inherently can’t have a price. Even if you provide source code only to your users, they are free to share that source code for free.

    Thus there can’t be piracy because piracy of free software is inherently allowed.

    And if you try to prevent your users from sharing the source either legally or with drm - you add restrictions to software, making it less free for your users.

    The recent situation with RedHat provides good demonstration and example of this.