I've been a professional C, Perl, PHP and Python developer.
I'm an ex-sysadmin from the late 20th century.
These days I do more Javascript and CSS and whatnot, and promote UX and accessibility.
Wow, that's a big, in-depth post. Thanks for writing it.
I think my problem with it is that recently people have been discovering that their permissively-licensed software has been used for things they didn't want to use it for, and for some reason this has blown up.
Everybody knew that was going to happen.
That's literally the reason people chose permissive licenses above copyleft.
I think a lot of this is down to the rise of javascript, to be honest. I think that people who are relatively new to the idea of free licenses have rushed to copy existing software and chuck it into npm so they can lay claim to being a "project maintainer". It's low-hanging fruit.
Social media peer pressure affects our children in school nowadays, and the same seems to be true for developers - if your project doesn't have a thousand stars next to its repo badge, then you're just not good enough, and the only way you can get those stars is to let Big Brother use it willy-nilly.
The popularity of the term "open source" and the push from certain vocal parties to release software that is "compatible" with big corporations' proprietary products means that this was all inevitable.
this only holds true in libertarian utopian fantasies.
The libertarian fantasy of the free market implies that people should be able to take your code and do what they want with it without giving anything back, so I don't think this applies here.
I think we can agree that if I extract value from your labor, you deserve compensation. Money just is the medium for exchanging value, and without compensation, there is no fair exchange of value. There’s just me stealing your labor.
You lost me here, I'm afraid. I don't agree in the slightest with this point of view, so anything that follows from it is going to be a problem for me.
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Wow, that's a big, in-depth post. Thanks for writing it.
I think my problem with it is that recently people have been discovering that their permissively-licensed software has been used for things they didn't want to use it for, and for some reason this has blown up.
Everybody knew that was going to happen.
That's literally the reason people chose permissive licenses above copyleft.
I think a lot of this is down to the rise of javascript, to be honest. I think that people who are relatively new to the idea of free licenses have rushed to copy existing software and chuck it into npm so they can lay claim to being a "project maintainer". It's low-hanging fruit.
Social media peer pressure affects our children in school nowadays, and the same seems to be true for developers - if your project doesn't have a thousand stars next to its repo badge, then you're just not good enough, and the only way you can get those stars is to let Big Brother use it willy-nilly.
The popularity of the term "open source" and the push from certain vocal parties to release software that is "compatible" with big corporations' proprietary products means that this was all inevitable.
The libertarian fantasy of the free market implies that people should be able to take your code and do what they want with it without giving anything back, so I don't think this applies here.
You lost me here, I'm afraid. I don't agree in the slightest with this point of view, so anything that follows from it is going to be a problem for me.