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"There are thousands of volunteers who donated their labour to Duo... Bit by bit all of our work was hidden from us as Duolingo became a publicly-traded company." (aus.social)

submitted 11 months ago by Star@sopuli.xyz to c/technology@lemmy.world

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[–] sukhmel@programming.dev 33 points 11 months ago (1 children)

This is a bit of "no true Scotsman" fallacy. If something you volunteer for hasn't been monetized you can always say 'yet'

FOSS is something people volunteer for and it mostly doesn't get monetized and cut off. Sometimes this means that the original is cut off but a fork lives on, so I would rather say that volunteering for a closed product is dangerous in that regard, not volunteering forany product

[–] BreakDecks@lemmy.ml 11 points 11 months ago

This is where licensing is important. If you want to contribute your time to something you think is important, make sure that your contributions are licensed to be open and free.

If a for-profit company violates the license, the contributors can fight back. If there is no license, you're just giving them free labor that they can exploit however they please.