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His take is just typical lolbert shit "Uh if the gov had minimal to no taxes then I could choose to send my money to these projects without politics clouding it" ignoring that most people just won't send money to foss projects because people hate paying for "free things" so you have to be lucky and hope you get a super rich donor to bankroll it. See Conda Forge which is the largest used FOSS conda repository used by labs and companies big and small (since the official anaconda stuff has funky licensing). If it wasn't bankrolled no company would fund it and they would be happy to leech off the repos like AWS and azure do with linux ones.

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The older I get the more I move in the total opposite direction: I don't like using any free services because some company is going to shit it up for profit. Everything I rely on is self-hosted (fedi, chat, web applications) or I pay for the service (email, search), whether because I picked a service that isn't free (Kagi) or because I want to support it (Signal).

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nostr:nprofile1qy2hwumn8ghj7un9d3shjtnddaehgu3wwp6kyqpqu6g08akz5suk39q6rg20dguwmnn4hkn98vtgpn8yr8uqappwn96qrlpl7n problem is only facilitated by people whose default reaction to windows or adobe being shitty is just pirating it and ignoring as the product gets worse and worse in front of their eyes. Rather then supporting better ones

Exactly! That's what I keep saying!