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People should be able to do whatever they want with the fruit of their labour, even publish software as public domain and not care if corporations want to make
by sph 4y ago
People should be able to do whatever they want with the fruit of their labour, even publish software as public domain and not care if corporations want to make money off it.
Who are you to tell them they are acting like a scab? Live and let live.
- LaGrange 4y ago[flagged]
- dspillett 4y agoIf we are going to throw words at each other, I could equally throw zealot at you. That sort of attitude tars the rest of us, so you are damaging the reports of the things you seek to protect. I'm a fan of AGPLv3, for the reasons you state, but throwing insults at others for having a different preference just makes you look dickish and by the indirect inference of outsiders makes other AGPL proponents look dickish.
- LaGrange 4y ago[flagged]
- dang 4y agoPlease stop posting flamewar comments, especially of the ideological sort. You've done it repeatedly in this thread, and in other places recently. We have to ban such accounts, regardless of which ideology they favor. It's not what this site is for, and destroys what it is for. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
- dang 4y agoPlease don't post flamewar comments, especially of the ideological sort. It's not what this site is for, and destroys what it is for. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
- bombolo 4y ago[flagged]
- sph 4y agoI will not deny them that right, but "I will call you a scab because I can" is a feeble and quite childish counter-argument. I hoped for a more intellectual discussion on why public domain is apparently immoral.
- LaGrange 4y ago> I hoped for a more intellectual discussion on why public domain is apparently immoral. Pay me 3000 euros and I'll send you a link to Das Capital.
- bombolo 4y agoYou argued for your rights, and I reminded you others have rights as well (because it seemed you had forgotten). You're a scab if you work for free, replacing a worker that would have been paid otherwise. If you get paid for your MIT licensed code, you're not a scab :) Because copyleft code benefits society as a whole, and the benefits remain around. Non-copyleft mostly benefits companies that are free to use instead of hiring someone to do it, or pay the authors of the GPL code for a proprietary license.