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jacobian May 20, 2025

One of the most frustrating parts of running an open source foundation is seeing the disconnect between what companies _say_ about their support for open source and what they actually _do_.

So many of them, it seems, are more interested in being _seen_ as supporting open source than they are actually providing support. It's optics, not altruism.

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Kevin Karhan

@jacob yes, and #OpenWashing is a real issue not just with #AssholeLicensing as seen with #Redis & others using #SSPL as a literal #AssholeLicense which are just "#SourceAvailable" instead of #OpenSource, but actual #donations.and #contributions.

Try to convince any C-level decisionmakers to donate even 1% of the equivalent of licensing the #CCSS equivalents of the #FLOSS deployed will get one laughed at, and suggesting 10% threatened woth getting fired.

#AskMeHowIKnow…