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299 points gastonmorixe | 5 comments | 12 Nov 25 07:56 UTC | HN request time: 0s | source
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juliusceasar ◴[12 Nov 25 13:00 UTC] No.45899605[source]▶
I refuse to donate. Trillion dollar companies depend leech on it and yet refuse to spend money on it.

Let it fail and see what happens.

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1. jmclnx ◴[12 Nov 25 13:41 UTC] No.45900044[source]▶
I agree with you in this, I donate to a few Open Source Projects, I really cannot afford to donate to one that multi-billon $ companies use for free.

For example, OpenSSH. Used everywhere yet IBM gives a big fat 0 to that project even though OpenSSH is even used in AIX. Even though I love to complain about Microsoft, M/S does donate a decent amount to OpenSSH via OpenBSD, so M/S gets my respect for doing that.

Time companies like IBM steps up and give, if not, we are back to playing with CMOS date/time. Which is how things were when I started programing at a large company decades ago.

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2. amelius ◴[12 Nov 25 13:46 UTC] No.45900105[source]▶
There's probably some stupid legal reason behind why they don't donate.
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3. throwaway838112 ◴[12 Nov 25 13:50 UTC] No.45900150[source]▶
Greed.
4. johnisgood ◴[12 Nov 25 15:42 UTC] No.45901542[source]▶
I would be interesting in hearing more about this. There are legal reasons for a large company not donating to FOSS?
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5. johnisgood ◴[12 Nov 25 18:03 UTC] No.45903450{3}[source]▶
Oops, s/interesting/interested.