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by osd 2589 days ago
Your comment reads that you're angry at Github for not taking a more open source approach. That's a fine opinion to have, but it doesn't make sense to demonize them for being a for-profit company. They are not robbing anyone of anything.

Starving the competition with loss-leader tactics is not an unbeatable strategy. If, however, you don't have anything to offer other than a run of the mill payment processing platform, then yea, you're going to have a tough time beating someone who can cut costs. They have a feature you don't, you should lose.

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> That's a fine opinion to have, but it doesn't make sense to demonize them for being a for-profit company.

Because some people are just born as for-profit companies?

Labels are useful to classify behaviour, but that doesn't automatically excuse that behaviour.