Every enslavement is the joy of enemies, but a Hero of free software is a blow to the porky.
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Hero of Free Software
Submitted 6 days ago by haltdraw@lemmy.org to [deleted]
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Comments
WiseFirefighter7299@sh.itjust.works 6 days ago
you forgot LEMMY-
bearboiblake@pawb.social 6 days ago
Ehhhh, it’s not really so clear cut, especially with non-GPL licensed open source software - corporations love unpaid labor
DacoTaco@lemmy.world 6 days ago
This.
Facebook messenger was ( still is?) Xmp and they sure profit. Same goes for stuff like xz, openssl, …
Nothing stops companies from using open source packages. Hell, as a software developer i can tell you they are build on top of them lol
bennypr0fane@discuss.tchncs.de 6 days ago
Especially the MIT license lends itself super well to exploitation by big tech. I just don’t get why it’s become all the rage in the open source space the past couple decades. It feels like every cool new thing is MIT licensed.
bearboiblake@pawb.social 6 days ago
There’s a few reasons I think, some cool new things have big corporate sponsorships to get them off the ground and those sponsors would want a permissive license, MIT license has also long been linked to BSD so BSD fanboys like it, and also the open source community is pretty split between libertarians and leftists, MIT is generally popular with the libertarians, and GPL is generally popular with the leftists. Just in my personal experience!