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Or it's capital preying on basic research funded by the public.

• nordsieck 4y ago
  > Or it's capital preying on basic research funded by the public. How, exactly, is open source "basic research funded by the public"?
  • dmix 4y ago
    If anything private capital funds OSS as much or more than anything else. OSS is primarily driven by time donation by the coders anyway. If they don't want companies using it there is a well established system to prevent that... it's called licensing.
• wpietri 4y ago
  It could be preying, but it doesn't have to be. In recent decades we've seen a rise of IGMFY capitalism. But there are varieties of capitalist thinking that see companies as situated in a society that they are part of in a way that gives them duties as well as rights. That's not popular today, of course, but it's not impossible that we'd return to it.
• matkoniecz 4y ago
  If someone published code as MIT then use by commercial entities is hardly preying on it.