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Because, in the case of FOSS, that is making good software available to all of humanity. From the $200k SF developer who can afford Paw easily, to the lowly pai
by pikzen 10y ago
Because, in the case of FOSS, that is making good software available to all of humanity. From the $200k SF developer who can afford Paw easily, to the lowly paid eastern European developer, to the broke student.
That is of course assuming that the copy is done to have feature parity with the original. Copying solely to surf on the popularity of software while at the same time making it awful is a problem.
Also, if you don't want your work copied, don't put it out.
- tigershark 10y agoWhen someone decides to write some very useful software to sell it and someone else "copies pixel per pixel" the software is simply stealing the original author work. If you want to write your software and release it with an open source license you are perfectly able to do it. If you are simply doing an exact copy "pixel per pixel" of someone else work and releasing it as an open source you are stealing his intellectual property given that the original license is NOT open source. I really love open source, but people that think in this way seriously risk to undermine my trust on the whole OSS model.