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You'd think it was pretty cool, sure, we all would... but imagine you lose your job, the job market sucks, etc. you're on your 8th month of unemployment and hav
by cmrdporcupine 3y ago
You'd think it was pretty cool, sure, we all would... but imagine you lose your job, the job market sucks, etc. you're on your 8th month of unemployment and having a hard time making mortgage payments and you see a company like Sony shipping something based on your own open source stuff... but without contributing back, without attribution, and without compensation?
Real world scenarios like this is what led people to embrace the GPL.
When times are good, corporate use of open source trickles down to the community in the form of patronage and employment. It is not always the case that this happens during "bad times."
- tzs 3y ago>> If something I wrote ended up in macos and the PS5 I'd think that was pretty cool. > You'd think it was pretty cool, sure, we all would... but imagine you lose your job, the job market sucks, etc. you're on your 8th month of unemployment and having a hard time making mortgage payments and you see a company like Sony shipping something based on your own open source stuff... but without contributing back, without attribution, and without compensation? ...whereas if you had used GPL you would still be unemployed in a lousy job market on your 8th month of unemployment and having a hard time making mortgage payments, but would have some Sony source code to look at and use.
- cmrdporcupine 3y agoBut I'd have sweet sweet moral vindication ;-)
- josephg 3y agoNah. Sony would probably just write their own code, or build their software on top of something BSD/MIT licensed. You'd still be unemployed, just you also wouldn't be able to write "My code is in the PS5" on your resume.