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Re: [open-regulatory-compliance] Open Source Software Stewards and CRA Whitepaper: review in progress until November 20th
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> On 9 Nov 2025, at 03:44, Scott Lewis via open-regulatory-compliance <open-regulatory-compliance@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On 11/8/2025 2:14 AM, Elizabeth Mattijsen via open-regulatory-compliance wrote:
>> But needing to ask a company for support, when that company literally made billions of dollars profit with a system built on Open Source, and getting maybe 50.000 euro / year (in good years), feels like begging to me.
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>> And that's from personal experience.
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> Yes there are people making billions of dollars profit off of other people's talent and labor. Perhaps that should be considered a systemic problem to address and to fix...by policy, law, or even just convention?...instead of disparaging the exploited as beggars?
Yes, it *is* a systemic issue.
And no, this is not intended to be disparaging, quite the opposite!
Many of these companies see open source communities as beggars, is my point.
Slightly adapted quote from earlier mail:
"But it is also an opportunity making Open Source from being perceived as a beggar, to an appreciated member of society."
Elizabeth Mattijsen
