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by typ 507 days ago
Open source has pragmatic merits and I love the culture. But I don't like associating it with a moral high ground because it doesn't charge you money. By this standard, we should also ask Intel/AMD to open-source their CPUs, video game studios to open-source their code and artifacts, and Google/Amazon for their search engine and infrastructure. Not all business sectors can afford to sustain with the Open Source model.
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> By this standard, we should also ask Intel/AMD to open-source their CPUs, video game studios to open-source their code and artifacts, and Google/Amazon for their search engine and infrastructure.

You aren't? You're weird.

Yeah. Actually if those companies did I suspect it wouldn't hurt them one iota.
The freedom is mostly not about the money. The 3D model Benchy was free, while being not free as people found out. Luckily the copyright owners treated it like people were free and free for now... but that could change.
- Talos Workstations

- Libre engines such as the ones from https://osgameclones.com

- Godot

- Use anything else, there are tons of libre search engines