If you can convince your company to do that, you can probably convince them to use a copyleft license, I would think.
Re:As an Employee, You Are Disposable (2023)
by tetris11 on Friday July 12, 2024 @06:25AM
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The benefit of the timebomb is that it gives a company half a decade or more to make their money. If it was copyleft from the getgo, then it'd be hard for the company to compete at all, which is a position I can understand.
> then it'd be hard for the company to compete at all
It depends on the codebase obviously, but you would have to prove that. On the other hand, if you open source it properly you may get contributions, which is valuable for the company.
It benefits the coder, it benefits society, and the company gets that sweet temporary window of profitability over their competitors as they always have since time immemorial.