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i don't know about you, but i have no interest in subsidizing bad policies of large companies with my leisure time, much less my work time that they're not paying me for. maybe those large companies should either abandon those policies or develop their own software without our help. or pay us

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i agree with Proven's [dead]ed comment that "Free software doesn't exist to reward developers and contributors." in the sense that the reason it's good for free software to exist is that it rewards users, not developers and contributors

on the other hand, the events which cause it to exist are that developers and contributors write it, so in that sense it does exist because it rewards developers and contributors in some sense

different people find different things rewarding. perhaps some people do find it rewarding to subsidize large companies with bad internal policies. but i don't