What if we could just care a little less? Or only at certain times? Make that emotional boundary a little firmer *in our own hearts*.
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What if we didn't spray our empathy out indiscriminately, but employed it tactically, to gather information via our emotional machinery?
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It's so easy to forget that the stress we feel about the opinions of random 1-off strangers is not trivial to change, but can be changed.
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My favorite license is the ISC license, because whatever. I write this code for it to be read run and modified. Go fuckin nuts with it.
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There's this fantasy land where companies will need to use FLOSS and they'll abide by the terms of the GPL and add to the commons dutifully.
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Or, failing that, they'll pay for the commercial version, and support FLOSS with their cash money dollars.
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And some certainly do. I suspect most just avoid it like the plague, or at least avoid shipping it in anything, or just violate the license.
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Companies typically (a) avoid costs that they can avoid, and (b) break rules they can't be punished for. So it's all about enforcement.
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("costs" here especially means "risks"; big companies especially often pay a high premium to avoid unlikely-but-very-bad scenarios)
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I want companies to actually use my code, because THAT will tend to lead to them contributing to it more often than if they weren't using it
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Once upon a time I wrote a blog post about this: http://yehudakatz.com/2010/01/05/the-maximal-usage-doctrine-for-open-source/ … TLDR usage is the high order bit.
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