I remember in the early days of JPG some people claiming that despite the size advantage GIF's image quality was inherently better and should be preferred. One

I remember in the early days of JPG some people claiming that despite the size advantage GIF's image quality was inherently better and should be preferred. One JPG fan wrote something that really stuck with me: "I don't know which is 'better', but I know I'd rather have 10 of these than 2 of those". Software developers are, as a rule, lazy. We pick "free as in beer" software because it means we don't have to figure out how to get accounts payable to approve it. We pick MIT licensed software so we don't have to figure out how to get the lawyers to approve GPL. And we publish stuff on GitHub with random new licenses because it's so easy to do. In the end I would rather have 10 such projects to cull code and ideas from than 2 that had carefully articulated ideologies that provided clear motivation for each clause in their license.