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6. The increasing influence of capital on FOSS. So much of FOSS development these days exists to serve business interests. (eg: systemd is most useful for professional server administration, and it became pervasive almost immediately. The Ruby web ecosystem is entirely optimized for the needs of well-funded startups.)
Using business revenue to fund FOSS isn't intrinsically a *bad* idea, but it seems like this is distorting the ecosystem.
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2024-12-01 16:07:33
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