Great article. There are certain types of software that I think GPL is well-suited for, and I think we should recognize it for the great things it's done for the software industry, but it's become a dinosaur fronted by an ideological nutjob whose arguments only work in a hypothetical domain where the world is filled with mostly bad actors.
There are a lot of good arguments to be made against GPL, many of which you point out in the article, but the greatest point IMO is a counter to the oft-repeated claim that "Big bad corporations can steal your work and profit off of it."
Look at the biggest MIT-style licensed software: Angular, React, Node.js, Atom, Visual Studio Code, etc... These are all corporations using their resources to develop software and giving it to us to use for free.
My name is Matteo and I'm a cloud solution architect and tech enthusiast. In my spare time, I work on open source software as much as I can. I simply enjoy writing software that is actually useful.
Thanks! You are one of the few that saw beyond the mere flame I tried to light up and brought some meaningful considerations to the discussion.
And I totally agree with you. I work for a company that makes proprietary software using open source component, and we release some open stuff too whenever we can.
It's the whole point of my article. Being free of developing proprietary software
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Great article. There are certain types of software that I think GPL is well-suited for, and I think we should recognize it for the great things it's done for the software industry, but it's become a dinosaur fronted by an ideological nutjob whose arguments only work in a hypothetical domain where the world is filled with mostly bad actors.
There are a lot of good arguments to be made against GPL, many of which you point out in the article, but the greatest point IMO is a counter to the oft-repeated claim that "Big bad corporations can steal your work and profit off of it."
Look at the biggest MIT-style licensed software: Angular, React, Node.js, Atom, Visual Studio Code, etc... These are all corporations using their resources to develop software and giving it to us to use for free.
Thanks! You are one of the few that saw beyond the mere flame I tried to light up and brought some meaningful considerations to the discussion.
And I totally agree with you. I work for a company that makes proprietary software using open source component, and we release some open stuff too whenever we can.
It's the whole point of my article. Being free of developing proprietary software