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> Open source is how software developers are conditioned and socialized into participating in their own exploitation under capitalism. Feel free to expand on t
by diggan 2y ago
> Open source is how software developers are conditioned and socialized into participating in their own exploitation under capitalism.
Feel free to expand on this, as I don't understand how putting a MIT license on my projects contribute to "my own exploitation under capitalism", and I'd generally call myself an anti-capitalist so I'm missing something here.
- meiraleal 2y agoCorporations have the capability to make 1.000.000x more money with your code than you and they won't give you a penny. You don't seem to care, up to you. But some people are soured by it, that's up to them, no?
- diggan 2y agoI don't see how that ends up exploiting me? The scenario is something like: I wrote a library, put a MIT license on it and made the code public. A corporation found this library, built something with it and earns a billion dollars every month, and somehow this is exploiting me? I explicitly gave code away, for free, for people to use for whatever they want, so what happens beyond the code I wrote, I couldn't care less about. To me it sounds like a bunch of people got sour about something they did, but didn't fully understand the scope of. I mean, you gave something away for free without asking for anything back, but then you see companies make money from it so now you want a piece?
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- 01HNNWZ0MV43FF 2y agoSo use AGPL