Making more walled gardens would probably only polarize society more, not help it. But the emotion is understandable.
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phoenixz@lemmy.ca 3 weeks ago
Just use open source software with open protocols.
We should have a GPL update that disallows using the software within closed sourced eco systems.“this software is only allowed to be run on open source operating systems” for example.
Eximius@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
phoenixz@lemmy.ca 3 weeks ago
No, I want LESS walled gardens. Whenever a company gets involved you get walled gardens.
Let companies no longer be able to just profit from all of our work for free
MDCCCLV@lemmy.ca 3 weeks ago
That just sounds like you don’t want the majority of people to use it. You still only have 4% of desktop users on Linux.
phoenixz@lemmy.ca 3 weeks ago
Everyone can use it, use it all they want however they want
Having said that: Large corporations shouldn’t be able to profit endlessly off of my work for free, fuck that shit
CosmicTurtle0@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 weeks ago
AGPL sort of requires this and I’ve started to use it in projects that run on networks. The problem I’ve seen is that so many cloud providers use software with permissive licenses like MIT.
Honestly, more projects need to switch to licenses that require contributions back to the source if you publicly built upon it.
My company, for example, has a FOSS scanner and rejects any library that has copyleft provisions. I imagine most companies do. The corporate world would become absolutely fucked if every package decided to use GPL.
And just a reminder how one developer fucked over companies by removing his library from npm.
phoenixz@lemmy.ca 3 weeks ago
That is my point yes. Open Source projects must stop using these permissive licenses, it’s allowed companies to enrich themselves by screwing over all internet users and it cost them nothing because of these licenses.
At least invest in your own damned software, assholes