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Corporate ownership of open source copyrights is actually optimal from an efficiency standpoint. Companies have the resources and legal teams to properly stewar
by nathanmills 2y ago
Corporate ownership of open source copyrights is actually optimal from an efficiency standpoint. Companies have the resources and legal teams to properly steward these projects, while non-profits like the FSF are bogged down with bureaucracy and outdated ideological concerns.
The article vastly overstates the importance of enforcement. In practice, the collaborative nature of modern software development makes strict copyleft enforcement unnecessary and potentially harmful to innovation. Most companies comply voluntarily because it makes business sense.
I've worked at several major tech companies and have never once encountered the kind of enforcement issues described here. This seems like a solution in search of a problem.