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Your personal financial incentives < humanity. I would rather you had a harder time selling licenses if it meant the ecosystem around whatever big project you'r
by mistercheph 1y ago
Your personal financial incentives < humanity. I would rather you had a harder time selling licenses if it meant the ecosystem around whatever big project you're talking about was compelled to contribute to the commons in the same way that the big project does.
Proprietary software is the dead or soon to die branches of the tree of human development, may spawn some useful insights that will ultimately be applied elsewhere, and may be profitable and useful in the short term, but the branch dies, I don't want to subsidize dead branches, and I don't want to write software that enables people to make more of them, even if some of those branches might be nice to hang on for a while.