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> JetBrains are going to lobby for a law preventing local development?

You think this is hyperbole, but companies lobby for unfair and anti-consumer, anti-privacy laws all the time.

You live in a world with a weekend and reasonable working conditions because workers banded together and fought against corporations to buy those things for you. Don’t be naive. Corporations do what is best for their bottom line.

> telling anyone to do anything

I am explaining to you why it’s in your own self interest to support free and open source software and think of it as a community rather than a label for a project. Corporations don’t need you to side with them, they have money and lobbyists, advocate for your fellow volunteer devs instead.

This is way off the deep end as a response to a company offering a tool that nobody has to use if they don’t want to.

> I am explaining to you why it’s in your own self interest

That’s for your opinion of my own interests.

JetBrains don’t tell me what I should do, or tell me that I don’t know my own interests, or make moral judgements against me, only people like you do that.

If we, the discerning consumer, could just take and toss the flyer being thrust into our faces by the picketer outside the Amazon warehouse (or the free software movement's equivalent), the world and HN would be a less acrimonious place.

Why would a corporation make a judgement against you when you’re advocating for them?

They don’t make judgements if you’re advocating for them or not.

If I turn down a service from a company they don’t question my morals or call me a hypocrite do they? That just doesn’t happen like you think it does.

If you’re looking for a vitriol target I’d spend a lot more time looking at VS Code which has basically eaten the lunch of FOSS while dressed as a sheep than a commercial tool which has always been commercial (even if the source is available under a very reasonable license).

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