• abessman@lemmy.world
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    4 months ago

    because having some capital class dictate the project is entirely antithetical to having the choice to contribute

    Why?

    the AI stuff is just being contributed by a few large companies who want it

    Contributing something because you want it is how free software works.

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      4 months ago

      yes, and having a subscription based shareholder system is antithetical to this

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        4 months ago

        Repeating it doesn’t make it true. As long as the code is released under a FOSS license, the development model doesn’t matter.