alt Hacker NewsI would describe this more as "trying to prevent others from having non-free software if they wish to", which is a lot more questionable imo.
I would describe this more as "trying to prevent others from having non-free software if they wish to", which is a lot more questionable imo.
Some in the Free Software community do not believe that making it harder to collaborate will reduce the amount of software created. For them, you are going to get the software and the choice is just “free” or not. And they imagine that permissively license code bases get “taken” and so copyleft licenses result in more code for “the community”.
I happen to believe that barriers to collaboration results in less software for everybody. I look at Clang and GCC and come away thinking that Clang is the better model because it results in more innovation and more software that I can enjoy. Others wonder why I am so naive and say that collaborating on Clang is only for corporate shills and apologists.
You can have whatever opinion you want. I do not care about the politics. I just want more Open Source software. I mean, so do the others guys I imagine but they don’t always seem to fact check their theories. We disagree about which model results in more software I can use.