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How is it independent? It’s just another company.

I think of it as similar to independent movies or independent bookstores (back in the day). Yes, it’s still a company/organization, but one that isn’t controlled by one of the big studios.

So in this case, that really means that it’s not controlled directly (or indirectly) by a FAANG.

It is not paid to another company (ehm, Mozilla), or it doesn’t live from advertisements (almost everybody else). You pay for its services the old-fashioned way, with your money.

Sourcehut being a company is like calling a farmer's market stand a corporation.

Looks like a duck, swims like a duck…

What's your point? It's mainly drew working on a fully OSS project that he happens to host and accept money for doing.

Is your beef with people making money for their work? Or with Megacorps? Because sourcehut isn't one, by a longshot.

They have a history of doing things with negative financial consequences just to make a point on some sociopolitical issue. I can't remember a single "just another company" off the top of my head that conducts business in this way.

Bingo. While I might afree with some of their points, it seems a poor way to convey them.

It's still a company. Just because it's a company that behaves ethically doesn't make it less of a company. It's just a very odd one.

that's missing the point. the farmer at the farmers market also have a tax code and pay sales taxes. by your logic you would also make a fool of yourself and call a farmer at a farmers market a corporation, just like you're making yourself look like a fool now defending that a tiny ethical opensource focused one person company is a corporation.

I don't follow. A "corporation" is just an entity that's filed articles of incorporation with the appropriate government office. You can have a single person that owns a corporation or LLC. (Source: I own an LLC.)

At the end of the day, everything reduces to human beings interacting with each other.

A corporation is just one method by which people coordinate their activities, not some separate entity that has its own independent existence or intentions.

You can certainly draw distinctions between the consistency, reliability, and scalability of some people's way of organizing their activities vs. other people's, but that doesn't distinguish the underlying nature of what they are, just how good they are at organizing.

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