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draconacht
@draconacht.dev

a troubling fixture of 2010s/20s era software development is the conflation of libre and gratis. corporate employees translate "open source" as "free to use", inconsiderate of the labour involved in producing such a thing. open source cannot be seen as an infinite well to draw water from.

draconacht
@draconacht.dev

it's not just abuse though. OSS is often the exemplar of its category, see Grafana and such. much can be learnt from referring to their code, and many stories of technical, management, and human merit are lost in our de-human-isation of OSS. we ignore the hands that feed us at our own peril.