I'm surprised that other people are surprised that for-profit companies constantly try to increase their profits; such companies only contribute to FOSS when that's more profitable than the alternative. The Linux kernel, AMDGPU, Steam, etc only exist because some part of the software/hardware stack is proprietary (which becomes a more attractive product as the FOSS portion of the stack improves).

I'm definitely not justifying the "rug-pulling", but people need to stop supporting projects with no potential for long-term profitability unless those projects can survive without any support from for-profit companies. Anything else is destined to fail.

[–] Nakoichi@hexbear.net 1 points 6 months ago (3 children)

people need to stop supporting projects with no potential for long-term profitability unless those projects can survive without any support from for-profit companies.

You see the contradiction here right?

[–] JuxtaposedJaguar@lemmy.ml 1 points 6 months ago (1 children)

I don't. Could you elaborate?

[–] Nakoichi@hexbear.net 1 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Open source projects have no potential for long term profitability unless those projects get support from for profit companies, thus compromising the nature of open source.

[–] JuxtaposedJaguar@lemmy.ml 1 points 6 months ago

Not all FOSS projects need to be profitable to survive. IOW if a project cannot survive without being profitable and it cannot be profitable long-term, then it cannot survive long-term.

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