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> You mean macOS? Or Playstation 3/4? Proprietary, non-free form of BSD, yes. As someone who has been dedicated to OSS since I started writing software and als
by ryao 4y ago
> You mean macOS? Or Playstation 3/4? Proprietary, non-free form of BSD, yes.
As someone who has been dedicated to OSS since I started writing software and also wrote some proprietary code for the health care industry (which was not open sourced mainly because there was no point since it would have been a code dump useless to people because hardware patents were involved), I have this feeling:
I would rather good code be reused by proprietary stuff, because someone is going to put that code in systems where failures kill people and it is better that they reuse good code to prevent deaths. It is ridiculous to embrace a philosophy in software licenses where people dying because of your decision to deny good code to people writing proprietary software is okay. The OSS versus proprietary debate should not be done in a manner that causes fatalities.