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MrMcCall 42 days ago | parent | context | favorite | on: Sell yourself, sell your work

Plus, am I the only one who is disgusted by the idea of Shell/Exxon/... using OSS in their operations?

Sharing technically-excellent software with parasites seems to be a net negative for the world, because many people are just takers who will ruin the world to make themselves a few more dollars.

OTOH, I love for regular people to have free quality SW to use for their lives.

How to strike the balance?

xandrius 42 days ago [–]

Make it GPL then.

MrMcCall 41 days ago | [–]

That will not prevent them using it for free.

xandrius 41 days ago | | [–]

Yeah but it often prevents them from being able to actually use it (unless they open source everything it touches).

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