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posted by tkchia Homepage, 25.03.2022, 22:04
(edited by tkchia on 25.03.2022, 22:14)

Hello kerravon,

> You may not see a reason, but I do. Maybe not a
> problem for you, but a problem for people who
> think like me.

Then are you able to explain how putting code in the public domain somehow magically makes it more able to "compete with Microsoft"? Or is it just an artificial requirement you are imposing on yourself?

No software house I can think of — not Google, not Apple, not even Microsoft the Great Satan itself — has had any issue with using permissively-licensed open source code. This is not just "what I think"; this is an established fact.

The mere fact that SubC is public domain does not magically make it more "competitive" than the Amsterdam Compiler Kit.

> Until someone is willing to sign on the dotted
> line that a work is being put into the public
> domain, the job hasn't been done yet.

And why do you think it is such a Great Good, for someone to work on a piece of software for free, only to have zero say whatsoever over how some hypothetical far-away for-profit company might choose to cash in on it? I do not see how this is good at all.

Thank you!

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