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ITT: The most politically charged discussion of compression software I've ever read...
That's how I know I'm home
FOSS users when there's a software that's free but not open source
I make software that’s almost “open source” with the only limitation being that you can’t resell it. I’ve had FOSS users tell me they’d prefer it being proprietary.
Surely thats just a couple of weirdos on the extreme side. Did that happen on multiple occasions?
Yeah, it happened many times, even across platforms (Reddit of course, but also Mastodon and Bluesky)
A lot of FOSS people consider my license almost “deceitful” because they think I actually hate FOSS and am having my code available only to pose as a “good” developer
Israel uses 7zip to genocide LGBTQ children in Palestine running Arch btw
It's always been a sore subject for unknown reasons