Sentry is unfortunately not Free Software/Open Source

Posted Oct 9, 2024 19:46 UTC (Wed) by roc (subscriber, #30627)
In reply to: Sentry is unfortunately not Free Software/Open Source by floriansnow
Parent article: The Open Source Pledge: peer pressure to pay maintainers

So profits from non-free software are tainted and should not be accepted by a charity? That's a pretty extreme position.

Sentry is unfortunately not Free Software/Open Source

Posted Oct 10, 2024 4:41 UTC (Thu) by milesrout (subscriber, #126894) [Link] (2 responses)

What a nasty, bad-faith interpretation of florian's comment. That is obviously not what florian said AT ALL.

Sentry is unfortunately not Free Software/Open Source

Posted Oct 11, 2024 5:40 UTC (Fri) by roc (subscriber, #30627) [Link] (1 responses)

Ok, I'm sorry.

I remain genuinely puzzled by the issue here. What's wrong with non-free software companies supporting free software?

Sentry is unfortunately not Free Software/Open Source

Posted Oct 18, 2024 23:42 UTC (Fri) by pabs (subscriber, #43278) [Link]

Free Software sponsorship is essentially cheap marketing to these companies, they get to spread their logos around, and as a bonus some of the libre rubs off on the non-free companies in the minds of visitors. Lots of people strongly dislike it when FOSS takes money from the likes of Google for example, although that is declining as they do it more though.