> is a boon to creativity. Its a boon for one generation of creatives, but then the buck stops there and you are right back to proprietary everything no creati

> is a boon to creativity. Its a boon for one generation of creatives, but then the buck stops there and you are right back to proprietary everything no creativity left for the masses such as on mobile platforms. Copyleft guarantees creativity for all who touch the software, not just the first developer to commercialize it. > good for them! Made this comment[1] that Steve even replied to a week ago, and imagine that whole discussion thread inspired this blog post, but its not really just "good for them". > looking for a simple answer to the question And have spent going on forty years at it, because there is no simple answer to escape the externalities of writing code. Either nobody uses your code and it doesn't matter, or somebody uses your code and it does matter. What you write, how you license it, how you distribute and produce it, will all matter if it gets used. The fallacy is that the permissive community wants to see it used at any cost. To make the code matter, even if it has a negative impact - on the developer ecosystem, on the ecosystem it works in, or on society at large. But at the end of the day, FAANG is entirely built on top of both free and open source software, they represent combined the greatest concentration of wealth in the history of the free world, and you can't stay naive enough to think the code you give away is simply "so people will use it" as the be all and end all forever. [1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19497949 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19497949