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> Terribly ungrateful of you, but okay, it's not a crime. Companies are not people. It is nonsensical to say that someone is being grateful or ungrateful to so

> Terribly ungrateful of you, but okay, it's not a crime. Companies are not people. It is nonsensical to say that someone is being grateful or ungrateful to some abstract legal construct. If the executives of some company decide to let their employees work on open source projects, it's because they think this will improve profitability in some way: advertisement, attracting talent, benefiting from free work, facilitating adoption, etc. Most of these companies benefit from open source way more than they contribute. Which is fine, but let's not assign human emotions to things that are not human. Being grateful to a corporation is the same as being grateful to your coffee machine for making coffee when you press the button. I am very grateful to people who contribute to open source on their free time.

oefrha 7y ago
Ever heard of win win relationship? You can benefit from a company open sourcing a project and the company could benefit a lot more from it at the same time. It’s nonsensical to forbid other people from feeling grateful when they benefit from someone else’s (or should I say some company else’s) non-altruistic actions, even if you don’t.
- TelmoMenezes 7y ago
  > Ever heard of win win relationship? How could I not? It's one of the most repeated clichés in the history of clichés. In any case, I am not denying mutual benefit or trying to forbid anyone from anything. I am just saying that if you are shouting "you ungrateful bastard" and the target of gratitude is a legal entity, you are just being silly.