[...] if you want proprietary software, not just non-copyleft, to prosper. The reason Google, Facebook, Netflix, Twitter, even Amazon could gobble up so much of

[...] if you want proprietary software, not just non-copyleft, to prosper. The reason Google, Facebook, Netflix, Twitter, even Amazon could gobble up so much of our data and communications and lives is thanks to licenses that didn't make it mandatory for those companies to share their source code. Non-copyleft is free work that can be turned into a commercial product. "Freedom of the developer" doesn't exist in the vacuum. Your freedom to do what you want has impacts on the way other people will use the computer. If your freedom is more important than the collective well-being of sharing resources, products and knowledge, you are not a good person.