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humans have the innate hunter-gatherer sense that generosity and sharing are good for us, and selfishness is bad. And that ethical should be legal and unethical
by fsckboy 3y ago
humans have the innate hunter-gatherer sense that generosity and sharing are good for us, and selfishness is bad. And that ethical should be legal and unethical should not be.
Open source is generous sharing, and ethical. Start to nibble away at those ideals and at what point do you slip into unethical? IMDB was a crowd-sourced database put together by a wide community pitching in small efforts which one guy was maintaining like an FAQ. Then the guy maintaining it said, "It's worth money, I own it, screw all of you." How would people react if this happened to wikipedia? But wikipedia is safe because it's a non-profit... you know, like OpenAI, right?