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If you are in FOSS for the money, you are not in FOSS.

Humanity could be sat around eating fruit and making art, instead we have mortgages and credit scores, because the venal systems corrupt and extortionate the progressive ones.



We have mortgages and credit scores because the aformentioned humanity more often than not lacks the responsibility to assess both the financial capabilities of those who borrow the money and the evaluation capabilities of those who lend.


This is a late stage cause. There are also many early stage causes.


"Shepherds, Merchants, and Credit: Some Observations on Lending Practices in Ur III Mesopotamia" https://www.jstor.org/stable/25165020

Late stage, huh?


How long do you think that humans have existed?


Depends on what humans we're talking about. 200k years, if we talk Homo Sapiens.


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I think there's a middle ground to wanting to make money or contribute to humanity and not being a fucking sexual predator


>The flag bearer of FOSS is Richard Stallman

Open Source was literally created as an alternative to Stallman's Free Software.


So he's still the flag bearer of half of FOSS; the first and last letters are for Free Software.




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