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  • MaddieM4MaddieM4@raphus.social
    Oct 23, 2026, 9:05 PM

    Not to totally harp, of course, but this is why I've drifted to a position of intense skepticism and caution when it comes to for-profit corporate funding.

    Plenty of projects think they need that money, when actually they need architectural hygeine. And if you think corpo money is the thing you need to meet those hygeine goals, you're being naive about the strings attached to those finances.

    Hunger is not a valid reason to eat rat poison unless you want to die faster.

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  • MaddieM4MaddieM4@raphus.social
    Oct 23, 2026, 9:13 PM

    See also: FUTO, and also the Linux Foundation.

    This is why I have mixed feelings at best about the common sentiment that corporations use our work all the time and ought to pay for it. Sure, that's like saying the sky is blue - it's such a true observation that it's unchallenging. But the tricky part is achieving that without it becoming a problem of creative control. This is something that proprietary software companies often have much more leverage about, though they misuse the power. When was the last time Microsoft cared about the opinion of a paying customer?

    Non-profit orgs are a consistently safer bet, if still something you should probably vet before just taking money.

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