Our new present and its future requires the defense of ideas for all.
And MIT is lacking because it doesn’t force commercial users to lie about what they do behind closed doors? Trust me, if they are so inclined, they already do plenty of that. Next, with LLM assistance, all your copyleft code is freely available for word-salad-surgery remix and rebrand with whatever license anybody wants - as it always has been, LLMs just cut the labor required to do so by a huge margin.
Well, yeah, if they have a dominant market position, they can force their customers to do just about anything.
critical stuff like security fixes.
Yeah, that’s straight outta Canonical’s “pay us for extended support” playbook. Which is why I shifted to Debian a couple of years back. Canonical used to add positive value to Ubuntu, now they’ve shifted into the negative from my perspective.
How is MIT a “chance to take over”? It’s a chance to go proprietary with future enhancements, but that’s far from a takeover.
The mit license allows someone (some company) to modify the open source codebase and sell the result without making their modifications public.
That is not equivalent to closure of the commons, that’s some company spinning a proprietary version of something. If they try to sell it, most people won’t buy - most people will continue to use the FOSS version. The people they sell it to may enjoy the proprietary enhancements, but that doesn’t prevent the FOSS community from developing those enhancements in the open if they so choose.
MIT license is not a software patent.
How does copyleft benefit you?
All the best to Jolla - I wished their products would have succeeded 10 years back, they did manage to refund half my deposit when they didn’t back then. The world is more turbulent now, that may be a wave that pushes the little boat higher, or capsizes it again…
Know this Jolla crew: US residents also would like your phones to work here.
Oh, so you believe MP3 pirates have actually stolen something off of the retail music shelves as well, then? Digital piracy is the ultimate evil and all that? Supporting strong jail terms for pirates, are you?
The difference between the commons of the industrial revolution and the commons of the digital landscape is that the commons of old was a finite resource. The digital commons is effectively infinite.