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Re:Red Hat cutting back RHEL source availability by reidrac on Thursday June 22, 2023 @02:31AM (#36428664)
That's spot on.

That was what I meant initially: in HN there's a strong opinion against copyleft, not necessarily free software.

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Re:Red Hat cutting back RHEL source availability by palata on Thursday June 22, 2023 @03:00AM (#36428851)
I get why companies can make more profit in a world where most software is under a permissive license. I just don't really see how it benefits users and, more importantly, developers as individuals.

To me, writing software in my free time and open sourcing it under a permissive license is shooting myself in the foot. I did the work for free, it may as well benefit me as a user. At minimum it should be MPLv2.

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