▲ 1149 ▼ "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 2 years ago by Star@sopuli.xyz to c/technology@lemmy.world 239 comments fedilink hide all child comments
[–] Sightline@lemmy.world 9 points 2 years ago (1 child) Mapbox sells your work for a profit. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] chiliedogg@lemmy.world 10 points 2 years ago OSM is the best kind of Open Source. It CAN be used in commercial products, but any contributions to OSM from those commercial enterprises is still open, so you end up with commercial users contributing to the open system. I'm in charge of GIS for a city that uses and contributes to OSM and QGIS. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] chiliedogg@lemmy.world 10 points 2 years ago OSM is the best kind of Open Source. It CAN be used in commercial products, but any contributions to OSM from those commercial enterprises is still open, so you end up with commercial users contributing to the open system. I'm in charge of GIS for a city that uses and contributes to OSM and QGIS. permalink fedilink source parent