Post #2619609
2026-05-06 16:10 UTC
@chikl@digitalcourage.social @reiddragon@fedi.catto.garden @mrmasterkeyboard@mastodon.social
That's… wow that's horrible, how did we let the leaders of open source tech get bought out like that?
I'm sure it goes far, far back in Linux's history, but that is a serious problem.
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@reiddragon@fedi.catto.garden 2026-05-06 16:15
@cloudskater @chikl@digitalcourage.social @mrmasterkeyboard@mastodon.social They're not quite bought. It's really more of a chilling effect. Corporate sponsors provide the resources, be it manpower or money to pay for infrastructure and full time maintainers, so there's an implicit pressure to not piss them off out of fear they'll move their resources elsewhere. The same thing happens in academia all the time, and open source project are just as affected, though it's not quite as widely recognized as in the former case.