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    [–] [email protected] 11 points 2 months ago (1 children)

    I take it that you’re in the first camp

    You’re doing it for yourself/for fun/to better humanity

    If some corporate fucks want to abuse that then it’s their problem not yours

    [–] thevoidzero 22 points 2 months ago (3 children)

    Publishing it under GPL does benefit the humanity because any improvement on it will be also available to everyone. Letting corps take your work and put a monetary/legal block for people to use freely doesn't seem like benefiting humanity that much.

    [–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago

    No, it will not be available to everyone. Just the clients of the corpo and they can request the source. If you're not a client, you still have no rights.

    [–] [email protected] -3 points 2 months ago (1 children)

    What if your open source code is awful and is unusable, and a company comes in and makes it actually useful? What if it's used in a medical device that saves hundreds of peoples lives every day?

    You've now gone from free but unusable, to also fee an unusable, but in addition to paid and actually useful.

    [–] thevoidzero 3 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

    First of all, in many cases, writing new code is lot easier than trying to modify/salvage old code from someone else. Unless you can just plug it in for a modular function in that case your code is not useless.

    And if they think your code is valuable enough to save that many people after they improve it, they can approach you for dual license or other agreements. They pay people with patent all the time, so they can do the same for people who's volunteering their time for open source.