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Hacker News. Temporarily embarrassed billionaires who want to vouchsafe evil behavior in case their own future offers them an opportunity to steal from the com
by timewizard 1y ago
Hacker News. Temporarily embarrassed billionaires who want to vouchsafe evil behavior in case their own future offers them an opportunity to steal from the community on a similar scale.
If you lose open source you lose a major resource. You should be looking for ways to protect these authors instead of explaining how "technically it's all actually their fault for being generous in the first place."
This position is absurdly scummy.
- fragmede 1y agoAh yes, “temporarily embarrassed billionaires” — spoken by someone defending billion-dollar companies blowing past the only condition of a permissive license, then getting mad when people point that out. You don’t get to posture as anti-corporate while handwaving away an actual license violation just because the license was permissive. That’s not protecting the community - that’s making it easier to exploit. You’re not railing against theft, you’re normalizing it. Either the community’s rights matter, or they don’t. Pick a side.