Titans like Musk would love us to believe innovation means top-down solutions that only enrich the wealthy. In fact, we all have the power, says Eleanor Drage, research fellow at Cambridge University
Just use open source software with open protocols.
We should have a GPL update that disallows using the software within closed sourced eco systems.“this software is only allowed to be run on open source operating systems” for example.
AGPL sort of requires this and I’ve started to use it in projects that run on networks. The problem I’ve seen is that so many cloud providers use software with permissive licenses like MIT.
Honestly, more projects need to switch to licenses that require contributions back to the source if you publicly built upon it.
My company, for example, has a FOSS scanner and rejects any library that has copyleft provisions. I imagine most companies do. The corporate world would become absolutely fucked if every package decided to use GPL.
Just use open source software with open protocols.
We should have a GPL update that disallows using the software within closed sourced eco systems.“this software is only allowed to be run on open source operating systems” for example.
AGPL sort of requires this and I’ve started to use it in projects that run on networks. The problem I’ve seen is that so many cloud providers use software with permissive licenses like MIT.
Honestly, more projects need to switch to licenses that require contributions back to the source if you publicly built upon it.
My company, for example, has a FOSS scanner and rejects any library that has copyleft provisions. I imagine most companies do. The corporate world would become absolutely fucked if every package decided to use GPL.
And just a reminder how one developer fucked over companies by removing his library from npm.
That just sounds like you don’t want the majority of people to use it. You still only have 4% of desktop users on Linux.
Making more walled gardens would probably only polarize society more, not help it. But the emotion is understandable.