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There is a good talk by one of the authors of the X windows system as to why MIT for them was a mistake and how he'd wish they'd used the GPL. One could argue t
by ilovecaching 5y ago
There is a good talk by one of the authors of the X windows system as to why MIT for them was a mistake and how he'd wish they'd used the GPL. One could argue that a copycenter license is really just doing you doing the work of corporations for free, and when it comes time for them to contribute back to the hard work you've done, or to avoid fracturing the community by creating non-free addons, etc.
I agree that there is a lot of open source software, but there is also a pattern of corporations taking what they can and then building their own proprietary walled gardens around it. Most normal people still interact with the world through non-free software, a lot of which spends time spying on them, which is one of the main points RMS makes about why source code should be a right.
- panick21_ 5y agoAnd GPL prevents that only partially. As GPL does nothing to prevent Amazon Cloud. We know that Amazon internal Linux has changes. Its only about distribution. And not sure how X history would be different. Yes, for a program that we know would turn universal eventually it might have been helpful. It also might not have ever been open source or whatever. And again, a weak copy left like the CDDL style license might have been even better. The MPL 2.0 explicitly allows other open source licenses as well. The MPL 2.0 is what I think is pretty idea for a lot of things.