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In reality you just provide value to many other people, without them ever contributing back (either money or actual work, the big companies are just not structu
by hvasilev 6y ago
In reality you just provide value to many other people, without them ever contributing back (either money or actual work, the big companies are just not structured for such contributions). Also the licensing protection is a myth. If people don't like your license they can partially / fully rip off your work in numerous ways without you being able to have any claim on it. The second that you provide source code, they have all the power.
- musingsole 6y ago> The second that you provide source code, they have all the power. It's an illusion that you had much power at all before that release anyway. Code is only valuable when used in the right place on the right data for the right people. Otherwise, it's just more meaningless binary floating in the void. A developer's particular source isn't all that interesting. In theory, with the same idea kernel, another developer could build a similar thing. The only value someone's new, closed source project has is that it works right now. That's the only leverage in a negotiation. All of these talks over OSS have programmers power-tripping over their supposed influence in the world.