Isn't this where the Open Source/GPL community feel-good factor falls
apart?

Let's say I'm one of the developers working on some free software. It's
open source, lots of people can/have contributed. But then the major
user of this software gets sold for lots of money to a company, let's
call them "EthicLog", whose reputation is mixed, at best, and pretty
awful from my own experience.

Sure, the software is still open source and GPL but other people have
benefitted at my expense. I've been sold down the river, I've been
had.

Open Source/GPL may be a good idea, but not when some people profiteer
on the back of other people's efforts.

That's the way it is, isn't it?


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