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Discussion on: Open Source is Broken

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Tommy Jollyboat

The moral injustice is intellectual property (at least, strong forms of), and the notion of restricting access to resources that can be freely copied and shared.

While it's socially good to compensate talented people for their work, and nobody wants to make tools for Nazis, MLK and Ghandi were never compensated for freedom fighting, and everybody uses tools.

You raise a few interesting points however - there's an injustice in large corporations using open source software to power cloud services that might as well be proprietary as far as end users can tell, especially if they don't contribute upstream.

But overall FOSS is a benefit to humankind, and most people do the right thing.

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Tommy Jollyboat

I will add - Devs are hugely underrated and maybe these corporations should be encouraged to contribute money upstream ;) like tithes - give 10% to the stack