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by Kinrany 1099 days ago
GP is pointing out that it's hypocritical to expect to be paid for open source contributions and at the same time pay nothing to upstream projects.
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But they're saying that it's also hypocritical to release commercial software and expect people to pay you without contributing anything to upstream open source projects.
GP thinks wanting to be able to eat and pay rent is hypocrisy if you release open source software that depends on open source software.