Open source takes continued investment, and that must be subsidized somehow

Re:Open source takes continued investment, and that must be ... by jasonlotito on Wednesday August 22, 2018 @10:12PM (#17823992)

Because none of those cases have people giving permission for their work to be used by others to make millions of dollars. If someone gave their work away into the public domain, and then someone used that work to make millions, their shouldn't be an expectation that the other person somehow owes the other money.

If you think your code is worth money, sell it.

LGPL/GPL/AGPL exist for a reason. Not my fault you used BSD/MIT and didn't consider what you were explicitly allowing and encouraging people to do.

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Re:Open source takes continued investment, and that must be ... by pdimitar on Thursday August 23, 2018 @10:50PM (#17832424)

> their shouldn't be an expectation that the other person somehow owes the other money.

There btw.

Also, it would be common decency but we live in an era where if something cannot be enforced in court then you should not be surprised somebody is [not] doing it. Oh well.

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Re:Open source takes continued investment, and that must be ... by jasonlotito on Monday September 03, 2018 @09:23PM (#17905962)

By the way.

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Re:Open source takes continued investment, and that must be ... by spullara on Thursday August 23, 2018 @11:26AM (#17828020)

Agree 100%.

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