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> ...you can't use that part freely, but that's kind of the point The irony is that non-copyleft project author/maintainers want to reserve the right to exploi
by sangnoir 5y ago
> ...you can't use that part freely, but that's kind of the point
The irony is that non-copyleft project author/maintainers want to reserve the right to exploit other people's work when they "grow the project into a business", but bellyache when Amazon "exploit" their permissively-licensed work. Freedom for me -- but not for thee.
- nicoburns 5y agoIMO extremely large businesses like Amazon cause quite a bit of harm to modern economies/societies. They reduce the diversity of alternatives, and cause a concentration of wealth. That there is not a good standardised way to give preferential treatment to small companies does not mean it's unreasonable to want to.
- sangnoir 5y ago"Limiting Amazon's harm" is an honorable to put it - one which I do not agree is necessarily true. My cynical view is that Amazon is rich, and can afford to pay more, so a lot of projects are miffed that Amazon is not aiming a firehose of dollars at them for using code that they granted Amazon a license to use, but "not like that".