I like Bitaxe’s model. Bitaxe (Skot) receives opensats grant, they publish the Bitaxe schematic, you can manufacture Bitaxes, then you can kick back Skot what you like.

Lots of Bitcoiners have enough resources to just let everyone in the community work together and benefit. This enables us to scale super fast with passionate people. I don’t like the whole, I-made-it-I-control-everything-about-it-and-every-iteration-that-comes-from-it, mentality.

Imagine some dude who slid 12 text-punched washers onto a stainless steel bolt started to try and license everyone making fireproof tubes with imprinted seed phrases.

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Exactly,

NVK is super wealthy already - just a money hungry manlet.

I agree FOSS benefits the entire ecosystem since people can build and iterate off each other’s collective work.

The point I was making is that someone was calling Foundations unethical for using Coinkite code when it was FOSS before they changed it to source viewable. But Coinkite literally used Trezor code. So if you think Foundations is unethical then by default you would have to think Coinkite is unethical too since they did the same to Trezor.

Shouldn’t be any double standards.