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Seeing big companies take advantage of BSD or MIT licensed projects without sharing their contributions will always pain me. (lemmy.world)

submitted 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) by atmur to c/linuxmemes

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[–] WormFood 2 points 3 months ago

I have spent the last 10 years of my career writing open source scientific software

[–] [email protected] -1 points 3 months ago (8 children)

Personally I believe that the rights of users to privacy and freedom are more important then a corporations right to use open source software to make proprietary software. There's a reason why nobody uses FreeBSD and why Linux is the dominant open source operating system.

[–] MigratingtoLemmy 2 points 3 months ago (1 children)

I don't get what you're trying to say here: the BSDs aren't private and secure?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago

I'm saying that when code is open source it helps the open source ecosystem and when using open source code means contributing your modifications everyone benefits.