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A coalition of open source organizations has said, Enough is enough.

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Open Source Infrastructure is Breaking Down Due to Corporate Freeloading

An unprecedented threat looms over open source.
Sourav Rudra (It's FOSS News)
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dcatoffm
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Many years ago I advocated using rsync to create a local repository mirror of anything I intended to use/install across multiple machines. I used rsync because it was handy and bandwidth efficient at keeping local packages up to date, but the source mirror may be reluctant due to processor use. Anyway, the idea was one big download, then I'm not being a parasite for every machine (I had several, were often adding more, and this was before ubiquitous WiFi so also handy to throw ..
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uoou
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But we opened the gates and brought in the offering to Athena. I don't understand what went wrong.
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neverhurry
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Will we never learn!? These are the same corporate bastards that are obligated to maximise returns and whose stock owners are more likely to murder you than pay a fair share of taxes. They are only thinking about the short term, and right now they are betting on white nationalist christo-fascists. Anyone who thinks that (long term) they will kick a few bucks over to free software development because it's the right thing to do doesn't understand how capitalism works.
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Travis F W
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Say distribution networks should switch to bittorrent without saying distribution networks should switch to bittorrent.

@itsfoss Interestingly misleading, especially that second paragraph.

FOSS devs still "create, share, and improve software together." Dist nets certainly are a boon, but I'll capitulate the point of the article could be a tad more focused.

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Ken Milmore
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Beware though, of unintended consequences: When corporations start funding things it will be hard to resist their demands to add certain features, or to leave other features out. There are already plenty examples of open source projects being strangled by corporate control.

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