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Here are the implications of this: The biggest beneficiaries of open source software are massive corporations such as Google, Facebook, etc. By being worth mo
by RcouF1uZ4gsC 3y ago
Here are the implications of this:
The biggest beneficiaries of open source software are massive corporations such as Google, Facebook, etc.
By being worth more that what pay for it, open source is the largest transfer of value from the working class (software programmers) to the capital class (the owners of these corporations ).
- GoToRO 3y agoI'm sure all the gurus that promote open-source receive way more money than the open-source developers. Anyway, there is an easy fix for this: are you a corporation? You owe us $x for using our open-source software.
- nuc1e0n 3y agoI would imagine that's why the GPL requires the release of derivative works under the same licence. At present that doesn't extend to hosting on the cloud. But then again developers of peer to peer file sharing software like Kazaa have been hounded quite extensively which seems to me to have been a factor in the development of today's cloud infrastructure. On the flipside Microsoft and OpenAI don't appear to respect copyright now. Perhaps with IPv6 not needing Network Address Translation we can go back to a peer to peer world. IoT would require it.
- chr15m 3y ago> At present that doesn't extend to hosting on the cloud. If you use the AGPL variant it does.