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> What if the original author dies starving while some rich corporation takes advantage? I mean, really silly arguments when you look back. The evolution of op
by eropple 8y ago
> What if the original author dies starving while some rich corporation takes advantage? I mean, really silly arguments when you look back.
The evolution of open source software in the twenty years hence suggests that this particular question is not as silly as you frame it.
- steveeq1 8y agoNo, open source software has been a regular thing since the 1980's and arguably with 1970's with richard stallman. It was already 20 years old by the time I was explaining it to the lawyer. He was just unable to understand anything that wasn't part of his paradigm.
- eropple 8y agoBeing "a regular thing" and being "a thing that enriches companies off the backs of community-minded software developers" are not concepts in conflict.