What Debian has done well is make it less purchasable - i.e. keeping it more for volunteers / non-profit which eventually keeps the best check for it's own progress and less elements monetary elements.

As a non-profit it's better calculated in the long-term "for the love of it" and non-corporate type of efforts.

Being bought and taken over happens constantly today - so no surprise when *yet again* something good then gets bought out / changes hands / new leaders / put to sleep etc.

Debian people can die happy they didn't sell out. Poor people tied to what they love rather than momentarily rich / bad exchanges with wrong people.

WHY IS THE "GO" GAME PICTURED IN THIS POST...?
The idea in the picture refers to the game "go" which often suddenly has your pieces flipped over and captured by the other person (the other team in this case which is the monetary team / governments / banks etc - "the dark" or uncaring side)...
Playing the money games would effectively turning your 'piece' of work and love into a "dark" one day inevitably as time goes on and it gets bought or sold or more involved financially at risk etc (it's all risky business money and in the hands of wrong-minded people).

The Go game is the analogy later down the line as you see all your pieces get flipped to the opposite colour and hard work captured... even worse locked off (this is the kinda of default for the Matrix we live in and want more sharing of instead).

OTHER EXAMPLES?
Perhaps like RedHat which is now under IBM but that also lasted a while without so not the worst example-
IRC servers who got replaced / admin rights removed / new staff put in...
Websites with pay-gates and all this stuff probably as a result of monetising it or feeling in and around it.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Go_%28game%29

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Not "scaling up" using money is another way to see quality prevail and less toxic elements mixed in to decision making. The expectation without speed is that quality is maintained and the main focus, andeven slow cooking is better than hard and fast..
Speed via money (banks and companies, feelings from money by people) damages things and often crashes it knowingly (to get the tax or infrastructures bult only then for government to take over / regulate it).

So it's about keeping our monumental slow-progress ours and non-purchasable / less designed to be bought.
We know the banks and governments are cruel / financially based.
And ❤️Debian❤️ is not!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Debian

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