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Re:The Internet Relies on People Working for Free by zelphirkalt on Tuesday September 17, 2019 @06:13PM (#21000620)
And that's why we have things like GPL and free software, which ensure, that contributions are brought back to the community. If you want to have contributions brought back to the communities and not only rest inside for profit organizations, then perhaps choose a license to enforce that. This is what many open source people do not get: Many "don't care, it's open source"-licenses (MIT license for example) lack the backed in ethics of the free software licenses, which in contrast have been _designed_ to force contributions to be shared with the community. When someone chooses an open source and not free software license, they can't complain afterwards, that modifications are not brought back as contributions for the community. That's just being uninformed.

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