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[–] ohshit604@sh.itjust.works 25 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (7 children)

The Matrix.org Foundation is a non-profit and only relies on donations to operate. Its core mission is to maintain the Matrix Specification, but it does much more than that.

Non-profit… only relies on donations…

This was taken quite literally at the bottom of that article.

[–] nroth@lemmy.world 28 points 1 month ago (4 children)

The context in the article is important. Similar to what FUTO preaches-- people don't donate. That's why corporate solutions usually win. Better to charge a bit of money so we can have nice things.

[–] MITM0@lemmy.world -1 points 1 month ago (2 children)

The same people that enshitified open source licences ?

[–] nroth@lemmy.world 5 points 1 month ago (1 children)

People deserve to get paid on their work, and currently the best way to do that and survive in America is to work on completely closest source products that don't respect their users. Open source is probably the most respectful but doesn't work well as a business. We need something that works reliably for delivering real products that will achieve mass adoption. I think these source available licenses are that.

[–] MITM0@lemmy.world 6 points 1 month ago

You know what else source-available licences do ?

Put restrictions like you cannot make money from the forks. Forks are the lifeblood of FOSS.

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