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posted by tkchia Homepage, 25.03.2022, 22:40
(edited by tkchia on 25.03.2022, 22:55)

Hello kerravon,

> > 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?
> You answered this question yourself.
Well, I would like to hear your explanation, in your own words.

Because right now, as far as I can tell, your "reasoning" boils down to "public domain is good and makes code more competitive, because I have very strong emotions".

> Here you have answered your own question.
> You don't like the idea of companies using your
> code without you having any say over it. That's
> not freedom of use.
We have seen what happens when for-profit companies rely on code written by volunteers without paying back anything in kind. No, the outcome of all this is not "freedom". The outcome is exploitation of developers, and poorly-maintained software that has security vulnerabilities:

> > It is ridiculous when you think about all of the business capital that
> > depends on such grossly underfunded applications. OpenSSL has never
> > received more than a million dollar yearly budget and OpenSSH can’t pay
> > its electric bill. The OpenSSL foundation’s president, Steve Marquess,
> > said “The mystery is not that a few overworked volunteers missed this
> > [Heartbleed security] bug; the mystery is why it hasn't happened more
> > often."
> >
> > Marquess has noted an increase in donations and support for OpenSSL. Even
> > with this increase in donations OpenSSL is still underfunded. Marquess
> > says, the OpenSSL developers are not to blame for this security
> > vulnerability; they did what they could with the resources they had. The
> > true culprits are those who take from the open source community without
> > giving enough back.

(And all this even though OpenSSL is not public domain. The exact same problem would be exacerbated if OpenSSL were public domain.)

All this is established, well-known history. So again, why would it be a Great Good for a hypothetical for-profit company to simply cash in on someone else's work?

Thank you!

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