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That compromise thing was like eons ago when folks like Bruce Perens and ESR tried to tow that fine line between commercial open source and free libre paradigms and were successful to a great degree.

But today, such nuance doesn't exist. The commercial ones have gone full commercial and making no qualms about it (thus the title of this post).

If this attitude continues, all commercial interests in FOSS will be seen with high scepticism unless they have a proven track record of being a good actor.




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