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because otherwise big tech companies will take it and modify and release hardware with it without releasing patches etc? Basically being selfish and greedy?
by p0w3n3d 11mo ago
because otherwise big tech companies will take it and modify and release hardware with it without releasing patches etc? Basically being selfish and greedy?
- sneak 11mo agoIt is neither selfish nor greedy to accept and use a gift freely given to you. Receiving a gift does not confer obligations on the recipient.
- Hendrikto 11mo agoTrue, but you would probably still be pissed if somebody took your gift and hit you over the head with it.
- mordae 11mo agoIt does. There is an implied expectation that the recipient will will not be selfish. They can pay it back, pay it forward, possibly later when they can afford it, etc., but they are expected not to be selfish and also give someone something eventually.
- lumb63 11mo agoGifts definitely confer obligations on the recipient. You can experience this firsthand: take the next gift a loved one gives you, and then sell it, and let them know. Please report back on how you selling their gift impacts your relationship with that person. People can license their code however they please, but comparing open source software to a gift is not an argument for permissive licenses.
- sneak 11mo agoI’ve done precisely this and it was fine. Gifts do not confer obligation. Anyone who thinks they do is at best insincere and at worst a jerk.
- surajrmal 11mo agoDoes this happen to freebsd? I know plenty of closed source Linux drivers.