[-] duelistsage@sh.itjust.works 4 points 7 hours ago

It allows corporations to take without giving back.

It's why Sony and Apple based their operating systems on BSD over Linux.

[-] duelistsage@sh.itjust.works 0 points 7 hours ago

They never should've gone with a weak license to begin with.

Whoever is suggesting and perpetuating MIT over GPL needs to be tarred and feathered.

[-] duelistsage@sh.itjust.works 4 points 7 hours ago

So let them do that. Why should we be doing their dirty work for them?

Unless we're stupid.

[-] duelistsage@sh.itjust.works 0 points 7 hours ago

Businesses can already create their own forks of GPL-licensed software and not contribute their changes to the upstream project

No they can't, at least not legally. Part of using GPL software is that you need to include the GPL with any changes you make.

It's the entire point of the license and the concept behind copyleft.

[-] duelistsage@sh.itjust.works 2 points 7 hours ago

Going from GPL to a weaker license was a terrible idea and whoever supported it should be held accountable.

[-] duelistsage@sh.itjust.works 1 points 7 hours ago

The rebellion can only succeed with decentralized activity.

[-] duelistsage@sh.itjust.works 0 points 7 hours ago

It's because he's a minority and has to look "super serious" in front of the white guys to feel like he belongs.

[-] duelistsage@sh.itjust.works 1 points 7 hours ago

Very important.

At this stage, I see no reason to use anything other than KDE.

duelistsage

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