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by dzhiurgis 16 days ago
> Corporations which stole the work from many open source developers

Wasn't that the entire point of open source tho?

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What, no? The point of open source was to help other developers and communities. Not allow corporations to slurp them on a huge scale and sell you a subscription. Corporations always took advantage of open source but never at this scale.

A couple of years ago I used to work for a pretty soulless company and even them were very very adamant of filling all the forms and software BOMs, and respecting licenses when using open source projects. Now it's just slurp away

Don't buy a subscription baby, get an open weight model and go about your day.

Your complaint is equivalent to Amazon selling hosted postgresql...

> and go about your day.

That's the attitude that got us here. Just shrug along

> Your complaint is equivalent to Amazon selling hosted postgresql...

It's not. It's the equivalent of them copying the code, making small changes and calling it something else that they for sure developed in house, just believe