CIRCLE WITH A DOT

@bri7 100% agree, but to nitpick: we did not gave them money, they stole it from us

@bri7@social.treehouse.systems The way they act? Some sort of methamphetamine, I would imagine....

@bri7 I mean, that's not exactly how free software works though, it's mostly essential services being mantained lovingly and stressfully by a 60 year old in a university somewhere. Free software does tend to be funded, by their own foundations, with endowments and professional services (see redhat products, canonical and mastodon). Having free software funded by states defeats the international potential, lends itself to be more used by opressive forces