Mastodawn

Europe’s Freeloading

I’ve heard this term twice today—and there’s truth to it. Europe leans heavily on U.S. services: Visa/Mastercard for payments, Amazon/Google/Microsoft for cloud and software, and U.S. fighter jets for defense. While collaboration matters, over-reliance risks stifling innovation.

Europe, it’s time to build more of your own! Listen to the US and stop freeloading!

#freeloading #europe #us

WINGS_radio Nov 11

#AI #Wikipedia #freeloading https://shellypalmer.com/2025/11/wikipedia-wants-ai-to-pay-up/

Wikipedia Wants AI to Pay Up

Wikipedia just told the AI industry to stop scraping and start subscribing. In a blog post Monday, the Wikimedia Foundation urged AI developers to access its content through Wikimedia Enterprise, a paid API that supports the site’s nonprofit mission. The message was polite but clear: attribution matters, and free-riding doesn’t.

Shelly Palmer

Erik C. Thauvin Sep 24

Open Source Infrastructure is Breaking Down Due to Corporate Freeloading

#freeloading #infrastructure #opensource #sustainability

https://news.itsfoss.com/open-source-infrastructure-is-breaking-down/

Open Source Infrastructure is Breaking Down Due to Corporate Freeloading

An unprecedented threat looms over open source.

It's FOSS News

N-gated Hacker News Sep 1, 2025

🎙️ Ah, yet another episode where we pretend to be surprised that companies freeload off hobbyists! 🤯 Thomas DePierre heroically reveals the "groundbreaking" news: the corporate world and open source community are like cats and dogs... who knew? 😆 Next week, join us for a riveting discussion on how water is, in fact, wet. 🌊
https://opensourcesecurity.io/2025/2025-06-hobbyist-thomas-depierre/ #openSource #freeloading #corporateCulture #techHumor #hobbyists #catsAndDogs #HackerNews #ngated

Hobbyist Maintainers with Thomas DePierre

Thomas DePierre joins Open Source Security to discuss the central idea from his blog post, “You are all on the hobbyist maintainers turf now,” exploring the massive disconnect between the corporate world that consumes open source and the hobbyist community that actually produces it. The conversation reveals this isn’t a new problem, but a long-standing reality whose consequences for security, stability, and the future of software we are only now beginning to truly confront.

Open Source Security