On software licenses…
“I think this whole subject is very interesting and the effects of software licenses on business is something that doesn’t get talked about very much.
The people who wrote these open source software licenses are hard-core anti capitalists and socialists, who believe in the state. That’s why these licenses are property effacing.
The original reasons why the open source software movement was started was in response to UNIX and Microsoft and Apple and their closed source operating system . Those licenses served a very good purpose and worked very well to create competition in both operating systems and office suite software.
Because they were very successful, people have tended to go along with them, reflexively without understanding the side-effects. Once they understand the side-effects, however, they realised that open source licences are very harmful to them personally.
That’s why they use phrases like “rip-off” and get very angry about their software being copied under a license that they chose consciously and wasn’t forced on them.
Everyone makes mistakes and no one is perfect. In the case of choosing the wrong software license, the best thing to do would be to announce you’re changing the license and very quietly go under a different license.
The vast majority of people know nothing about gnu, 0S, wars or anything like that. Exposing them to this bickering is counter-productive in the small scale, closed world of the Bitcoin Cult.”
beautyon / Beautyon
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