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Most of the people who go nuts when you point these things out are FOSS zealots reacting to the idea that FOSS licenses should be adjusted to prevent billion do
by api 5y ago
Most of the people who go nuts when you point these things out are FOSS zealots reacting to the idea that FOSS licenses should be adjusted to prevent billion dollar companies from co-opting it for profit.
- echelon 5y agoProfit is fine. Building anti-competitive monopolies that don't share and that seek to own more and more of computing was an unanticipated side effect.
- kube-system 5y agoI don't think there's a single "anti-competitive monopoly" today that has less FOSS involvement than any major software company in the 20th century.
- spywaregorilla 5y agoIsn't that exactly what a lot of open source licenses have permitted due to hiding things behind SaaS layers rather than distributing products?