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> makes the code as free as it can possibly get Alas, the paradox of tolerance. Being 100% free for one generation means you frequently end up being 100% close
by Shish2k 6y ago
> makes the code as free as it can possibly get
Alas, the paradox of tolerance. Being 100% free for one generation means you frequently end up being 100% closed in a later generation. Being 99% free (“you can do anything except remove future users’ freedom”) is less pure, but it sticks.
- dublin 6y agoIt also significantly deters people from ever modifying that code and using it commercial applications, even if they are willing to open it up sometime in the future. (Believe me, as a several-time CTO, I've wound up in every case deciding that modifying virally-licensed code is way more trouble that it could ever be worth...)
- 35fbe7d3d5b9 6y agoSee, the system works ;-)