alt Hacker News“My million+ open source LOC were always intended as a gift to the world”
That’s great for John, but not everyone’s open source projects are meant as a gift to the world for anyone and everyone to use. That he cannot understand that others think differently than him is disappointing.
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ohrus • yesterday at 9:23 PM
Even if not an explicit gift, isn't all OSS implicitly a gift? I'm having trouble understanding the practical difference.
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> but not everyone’s open source projects are meant as a gift to the world for anyone and everyone to use
How is that open source then? There's a reason they added the "no discrimination against persons or groups" and "no discrimination against fields of endeavor" clauses when OSI came up with the open source definition in the 90s. https://opensource.org/osd
"Anyone and everyone" was always part of the gig if you wanted to release something as actual open source.
If you wanted to wrote proprietary source-available software you always had that choice. Likewise with Free Software's copyleft.