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Open source is very much like a party. You are perfectly entitled to expect the host to be gracious and the guests not to steal things. “It’s your fault for in
by hinkley 2y ago
Open source is very much like a party. You are perfectly entitled to expect the host to be gracious and the guests not to steal things.
“It’s your fault for inviting them in” is victim blaming and horizontal aggression. The people at the top of the pyramid love it when the peasants fight each other. Saves them getting callouses.
- bogwog 2y agoWhat a terrible take. This is the kind of "social pressure" I was talking about. Open source licensing isn't a party, it's a business decision you make as a participant in the intellectual property economy. If you make a stupid and/or uninformed decision, you're opening yourself up to exploitation. It is victim blaming because this situation is entirely the victim's fault. I don't even know what you mean by "horizontal aggression", and your comment about peasants makes no sense in this context. How does advocating that people be informed and use appropriate licenses count as in-fighting, or beneficial to big tech companies? If anything it's literally the opposite.
- hinkley 2y agoYou're blaming an author who offered his code to others (that's a social act) instead of a trillion dollar company. What do you think I mean by horizontal aggression?
- pessimizer 2y agoOpen source is a licensing scheme, not a party.