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plebeian | 3 months ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag +3 
 I’m making contributions without any financial benefits and I am sure there are many people like me out there. Sticking labels to groups of people based on few examples we find wrong is not the way
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Laeserin | 3 months ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag +1 
 There are lots of people who contribute to GitHub, Wikipeedia, Signal, Mozilla, Bitcoin Core, Linux distros, etc. who are not on salary and who expect no direct financial benefit. That is inherent to such projects.

Changes nothing about my argument, to point out that we also have people like that.
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plebeian | 3 months ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag +2 
 Sure, and there is nothing wrong in expecting benefits for the time and energy people invest into open source projects.
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Laeserin | 3 months ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag +3 
 There's nothing morally wrong with anything going on. In fact, it's the traditional path for FOSS projects to take.

I am just describing the direction it is headed and everyone can decide for themselves, if that is where they want to go.