Re:Open Source License Business Perception Report
by adrianN on Thursday March 30, 2017 @03:57PM
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Free software is not about the right to contribute to the main tree or about the right to compete with businesses on equal footing, it's about the rights of the user to use, modify and distribute the software and derivatives as they see fit.
This particular use case is where the implicit dualism of GPL software-centricity (vs people-centricity) falls apart/becomes absurd in my opinion - yes, the OSS version of the software is 'always free as in libre', but it is also always controlled by a creating entity who is using the license to create a defacto monopoly on it's commercial use, so the people are always beholden in some sense to the original code owners.