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This comment is an example of why people are hesitant to publicly do good things. If a company donates to open source and writes a blog post about it, but it's
by costco 2y ago
This comment is an example of why people are hesitant to publicly do good things. If a company donates to open source and writes a blog post about it, but it's not "enough," then they get a bunch of hate. If they never donated to open source in the first place, then there'd be no hate. Likewise, I've never heard of a company paying random people on the Internet to help fight patent trolls, yet Cloudflare did, won, neutralized the patents, and it's still not enough.
- cryptonym 2y agoThe capitalistic view is that a company low-balled folks with knowledge to win a case. Both views are valid. It mostly depends on the intent of the company and you can't know that for sure. As their interest in that program is quite obvious, it's understandable that some people interpret this in two ways. Now it's not like they forced people into that program. You are free to not participate.
- tripzilch 2y ago[flagged]
- btrettel 2y agoThanks. I upvoted your comment because it's a valid point that I had not considered that was stated without aggression. Many of the other comments here strike me as particularly aggressive or making false assumptions about what I believe and who I am.
- goric 2y agoThere's an interesting blog post[0] that calls this concept The Copenhagen Interpretation of Ethics. [0] (the original no longer loads for me, so here's an archive) https://web.archive.org/web/20230105070226/https://blog.jaibot.com/the-copenhagen-interpretation-of-ethics/ https://web.archive.org/web/20230105070226/https://blog.jaib...
- dangitman 2y ago[dead]