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[Meme] Leaning Towards the Big Corporate CoC

posted by Roy Schestowitz on Nov 27, 2023

Or leaning to "the green" (money). The Software Freedom Conservancy's business strategy in a nutshell:

$4 million per year for SFC (Software Freedom Conservancy): We frame the pioneers of the GPL as monsters, sexists, ableists etc.

They even sold keynotes to Microsoft, in an event about the GPL, which Microsoft is attacking. More people need to know that this is how they make money.

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