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<blockquote data-quote="bazang" data-source="post: 1103160" data-attributes="member: 114717">3 companies hawking FOSS support services at high prices set no rule. They just happen to be very lucky because they have government contracts.Calling companies that generate profit by charging any price for the needed dependencies needed for their so-called &quot;FOSS&quot; to be functional, by the very definition of what FOSS is, makes those companies not FOSS.There is no other definition of FOSS regardless of what ChatGPT returns. The FOSS movement objective is 100% based upon $0 cost software.If FOSS were viable, then everybody would do it. Even true $0 cost freeware does not work. It never has and never will unless someone or some entity with a lot of money is willing to pay for the development. Look at the Comodo model. That model, while very well meaning, never really worked to users&#039; expectations from Day 1.Not people at Red Hat. They are not FOSS idealists. They are pro-government, pro-government contract, and pro-capitalist.However, a lot of FOSS ideology adherents and the leaders within the movement are Anarchist\ANTIFA and anti-capitalist\anti-bank, at least in the US.The FOSS movement - its core ideology - is about $0 cost software, hence the moniker &quot;Free Open Source Software.&quot; Typically the politics is leftist leaning towards the more extreme end of that spectrum.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="bazang, post: 1103160, member: 114717"] 3 companies hawking FOSS support services at high prices set no rule. They just happen to be very lucky because they have government contracts. Calling companies that generate profit by charging any price for the needed dependencies needed for their so-called "FOSS" to be functional, by the very definition of what FOSS is, makes those companies not FOSS. There is no other definition of FOSS regardless of what ChatGPT returns. The FOSS movement objective is 100% based upon $0 cost software. If FOSS were viable, then everybody would do it. Even true $0 cost freeware does not work. It never has and never will unless someone or some entity with a lot of money is willing to pay for the development. Look at the Comodo model. That model, while very well meaning, never really worked to users' expectations from Day 1. Not people at Red Hat. They are not FOSS idealists. They are pro-government, pro-government contract, and pro-capitalist. However, a lot of FOSS ideology adherents and the leaders within the movement are Anarchist\ANTIFA and anti-capitalist\anti-bank, at least in the US. The FOSS movement - its core ideology - is about $0 cost software, hence the moniker "Free Open Source Software." Typically the politics is leftist leaning towards the more extreme end of that spectrum. [/QUOTE]

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