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by creer 888 days ago
> If you are not paying for the product, you are the product.

That's a fun quip (and often correct) but the world needs a way to run this kind of project. Community? free? transparent? etc, etc.

And I think this issue is not just about "free systems", culture changes and day to day corruption creeps and destroys everything. Even die-hard for-profit institutions (where entire branches might go rogue on their own objectives.)