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Universities always make things open source. I also make everything open source that I make for the university. It's because you cannot make money with it anyw

Universities always make things open source. I also make everything open source that I make for the university. It's because you cannot make money with it anyway and the university often allows it, so then it's really good for your CV. In Europe there is also a lot of stuff open source, and I can honestly say there is no plot by the government to destroy the United States. I don't think Linux is a plan by the Swedish government to destroy the USA. Most Chinese people in my experience also don't really have any country outside of China on their radar, unless they are in some trading business. China is just so huge compared to for example the US, they really live in their own bubble. It's not something they think about on a monthly let alone daily basis is my personal experience.

miki123211 2y ago
And if you want to do a commercial spin-off from your university work, it might be easier to put it all out as MIT/BSD/Apache and then start a completely independent company than to deal with all the paperwork. This makes life easier for competitors, so it's definitely a tradeoff, but it's the right tradeoff in some circumstances.
- PittleyDunkin 2y ago
  > This makes life easier for competitors, I think this is greatly overstated. Generally it's just sheer volume of capital and dedication to building a business that dictates market advantage, not any given persons' knowledge or know-how (though that's obviously worth paying for if you have the capital). I'd argue the primary reason why proprietary ownership of software exists isn't to make life harder for competitors but rather to make it harder for folks to figure out what they're actually paying for and bypassing the fees to actually fix (let alone improve) the software.
usrnm 2y ago
> I don't think Linux is a plan by the Swedish government to destroy the USA. Linus comes from a family of ethnic Swedes, but he was born and raised in Finland, the Swedish government had nothing to do with it.
- red-iron-pine 2y ago
  I thought he was of Lapplander extraction?

miki123211 2y ago

And if you want to do a commercial spin-off from your university work, it might be easier to put it all out as MIT/BSD/Apache and then start a completely independent company than to deal with all the paperwork. This makes life easier for competitors, so it's definitely a tradeoff, but it's the right tradeoff in some circumstances.

PittleyDunkin 2y ago
> This makes life easier for competitors, I think this is greatly overstated. Generally it's just sheer volume of capital and dedication to building a business that dictates market advantage, not any given persons' knowledge or know-how (though that's obviously worth paying for if you have the capital). I'd argue the primary reason why proprietary ownership of software exists isn't to make life harder for competitors but rather to make it harder for folks to figure out what they're actually paying for and bypassing the fees to actually fix (let alone improve) the software.

usrnm 2y ago

> I don't think Linux is a plan by the Swedish government to destroy the USA. Linus comes from a family of ethnic Swedes, but he was born and raised in Finland, the Swedish government had nothing to do with it.

red-iron-pine 2y ago
I thought he was of Lapplander extraction?