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Re:What’s up with these new not-open source licenses? by esperent on Thursday March 18, 2021 @02:34PM (#26505920)
> Unethical people ruin everything.

In this case, let's be clear: it was unethical companies.

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Re:What’s up with these new not-open source licenses? by bluefirebrand on Thursday March 18, 2021 @02:41PM (#26505994)
Companies don't have ethics. It's unethical people running and working at those companies.

And it's really far past time we stopped giving those people a pass because "it's the company, not me"

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Re:What’s up with these new not-open source licenses? by chithanh on Friday March 19, 2021 @01:17AM (#26510351)
> Companies don't have ethics.

In a way, they do. There exists a "company culture", which is the collection of social norms that have formed inside the company. Most members of a group will behave in a way that does not stray too far from these norms.

There is a very good TED Talk by Dan Ariely "Our Buggy Moral Code" which describes how such a culture is facilitating unethical behavior by individuals.

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Re:What’s up with these new not-open source licenses? by jacques_chester on Thursday March 18, 2021 @02:39PM (#26505978)
Companies are made of people.
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