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What's wrong with wanting to get paid for a product you develop?


Well, mostly because it's incompatible with the idea of free software:

https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/free-sw.en.html

Proprietary software like this violates all four of the essential freedoms.

Mastodon, for example, is AGPL; it's as much an ideology as it is a license, otherwise CC-0 or MIT would be fine. It is surprising that people take issue with software in this space that doesn't align with the ideology of the people contributing to the space?




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