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by q2dg 398 days ago
No open source, no fun
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Yes especially when it is build on free and open source software. Of course they don't have to, but it is always better.

As a user I wont dedicate myself to a software, the community can't fork. Like the enshitiffication risk is far to high.

Linux is free and open source software. Should everything built on Linux be free?

gcc is free and open source software. Should everything compiled with gcc be free?

apache is free and open source software. Should every website be noncommercial?

>Linux is free and open source software. Should everything built on Linux be free?

Yes.

>gcc is free and open source software. Should everything compiled with gcc be free?

Yes.

>apache is free and open source software. Should every website be noncommercial?

Yes.

Well, I suppose that's a philosophy!
Say what you want about the tenets of Free Software, dude. At least it's an ethos.

* this is a movie reference please don't come for me