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   ✧✦✶✷Catherine✷✶✦✧ (whitequark@mastodon.social)'s status on Tuesday, 21-Jan-2025 00:28:43 JST ✧✦✶✷Catherine✷✶✦✧

   the business model of element evidently is "write shitty code then extract rent from governments and cops to make it less shitty"

   is there any wonder it's as bad as it is

   https://mastodon.social/@jmc@unix.house/113857053433007481

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     ✧✦✶✷Catherine✷✶✦✧ (whitequark@mastodon.social)'s status on Tuesday, 21-Jan-2025 00:29:03 JST ✧✦✶✷Catherine✷✶✦✧

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     it disgusts me when companies make "community [project]" mean "a shitty useless version of proprietary [project] we actually care about"

     it also disgusts me that AGPL mostly enables that

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     ✧✦✶✷Catherine✷✶✦✧ (whitequark@mastodon.social)'s status on Tuesday, 21-Jan-2025 00:29:14 JST ✧✦✶✷Catherine✷✶✦✧

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     it's a transparent (and often successul) attempt to exploit unpaid labor by attracting people who want to improve the commons with the "open source" label and then selling the work they contribute, or using it to fundraise