By weaving ads into the natural flow of content, the platform hopes to deliver relevant promotions—think coding tools or job listings—directly to developers in their moment of need. This approach could foster a more symbiotic relationship between advertisers and the community, where sponsored content provides genuine value rather than interruption.
aiming to fund enhancements while maintaining transparency and user value. Critics fear erosion of trust and misinformation. This move reflects efforts to balance revenue with community integrity amid AI-driven industry shifts.
Well I was of course talking about the comment you quoted.
5 million a year would go a long way towards making their open source solutions meet their needs.
How is that „using fate instead of using their head“?
Germany already has funds in place specifically for open source projects so that’s not so far off the charts (even though the amount would be lower) so what’s your point ?
Edit:
And to be more specific the point of somehow being profitable is also not coming through to me on this, since when is open source software profitable except when used by for profit companies ?
I can understand the hype, I also know it will be pain for people involved and M$ will do everything to reverse the change possibly leading to even more headaches for said admins etc. as has happened in the past but you can’t finish what you don’t start so I think it’s still good news.
That comment does not state that imo.
I interpret it as „If they would spend that money on the transitions and advancing the open source projects they consider switching to, that would help the process“.
But maybe that’s just a misunderstanding.
Yeah but you’re missing the point. Them choosing to change despite the massive marketing budget of m$ is what my takeaway would be.
Migrations are almost never easy.
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