Today, IBM announced that it will buy up Red Hat for $30 billion. That value was mostly created by the labor of volunteer, un- or underpaid developers of the Free/Libre/Open Source software that makes up Red Hat's products. These people will not see a dime of IBM’s money. There need to be discussions of economic flaws and exploitation in the FLOSS development/distribution model.
-F -- blog: https://pod.thing.org/people/13a6057015b90136f896525400cd8561 <https://social.gibberfish.org/people/a76da580ba9b013533100007cb0b1a05> bio: http://floriancramer.nl
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