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Yeah we really need to normalize licenses that protect against that. Even GPL doesn’t because everything is SaaS now and companies will just isolate the GPL cod
by sarchertech 1y ago
Yeah we really need to normalize licenses that protect against that. Even GPL doesn’t because everything is SaaS now and companies will just isolate the GPL code to one micro service. AGPL might prevent this but there aren’t a lot of cases that have been litigated. And if they don’t modify the source then then it doesn’t do much IIRC.
But “open source” was in control of big business from the start. The open source consortium was a late 90s attempt to co-opt the free software movement and turn it into something business friendly.
Tim O’Reilly funded it to start and now it’s funded by big tech companies.