Notices by flabberghaster (flabberghaster@mas.to)

If you think my posts are bad, you should see some of the stuff I type half way out and then delete.

@lattera @ramsey @alcinnz In my ideal world there would be no companies. Why are companies who we assume will "Innovate"? Innovate what, for whom? I don't consider a company making a product that sells better to be that high of a goal for me. What I want to foster is people being a able to make use of things, and to do that I want to keep things from getting locked away in a vault. If that makes it harder for Ratheon to use it in a better missile or Google to automate someone's job away? Good.

@Jdreben @ramsey @alcinnz Lots of companies do this; usually they sell support for existing FOSS projects, or you pay them to add something to a FOSS project. Rather than paying someone to implement some code for you, you pay them to help fix things with code that already exists.

@Jdreben @ramsey @alcinnz that's legit. To be fair, most of the stuff I release is not that useful to other people, and most of the code I write is closed source internal to my company. So it's easy for me to say, since i'm not trying to get people to buy my open source thing and make a living on it.

But, I do think copyleft is far better, all else being equal, so when I do release stuff, even though no one looks at it, I do it out of principle.

@ramsey @alcinnz for me, I release all NY stuff on GPL licenses specifically because I don't want people taking my hard work, folding it into their own thing, selling it, and not contributing back. If companies have policies against copyleft, that's their problem.

I think we should all use copyleft licenses by default, if we really care about substantive freedom for all rather than just the freedom to profit for free off donated work.