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Another reason Free Software is important (lemmy.world)

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[–] iAvicenna@lemmy.world 25 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

FOSS is great since it can't be leeched for money because it can't be monopolized even as a free service with other means of generating income such as collecting and selling data. So money parasites stay away from them (unless they can steal parts of it to use it as components in their proprietary softwares).

[–] msage@programming.dev 1 points 1 month ago

But there are many who try to do so