The open source movement was always about "free as in labour." Now we're reaping the rewards of thinking it was a good idea to listen to esrhttps://twitter.com/benbjohnson/status/906209090371698688 …
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MIT/BSD licensing is a way of saying "here, big companies, have my labour for free, I don't care."
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This all leads to burnout, entitled users, all the toxicity people complain about in what open source has become today.
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You chose that for yourself when you chose open source. But realise that there's always been another way: it's called Free Software.
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Take a moment to care. Choose a licence that protects your labour. Don't let them exploit you or your work.
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The dual GPL + commercial licence has been a monetisation strategy for decades. With "MIT, I don't care" you gave it all away for free.
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GPL says "if you build on this software, you'd better contribute it back to the community which empowered you in the first place."
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Dual licencing says "if you're going to exploit this work, at least pay us." It's not ideologically perfect, but it beats exploitation.
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Rich Felker Retweeted Bodil
I advise ppl to consider this business model, but I think it's ideologically in opposition to Free Software.https://twitter.com/bodil/status/906596014743793665 …
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