It boggles my mind that a GitHub employee is writing in opposition to open source. You want us to restrict who can use our software? If I sell a hammer, should it come with an EULA specifying that it's not for use in military applications or by communists? You're entitled to your free thought, I'm here to tell you that it's thoroughly wrong-headed. Go pitch to Debian and see how far you get. Open source distributions could not exist if each developer attached their own set of crazy-ass conditions to their license. "Not for use by Jews" "Not for use by Republicans" It's such a bad idea that I didn't continue reading after that (yet)
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It boggles my mind that a GitHub employee is writing in opposition to open source. You want us to restrict who can use our software? If I sell a hammer, should it come with an EULA specifying that it's not for use in military applications or by communists? You're entitled to your free thought, I'm here to tell you that it's thoroughly wrong-headed. Go pitch to Debian and see how far you get. Open source distributions could not exist if each developer attached their own set of crazy-ass conditions to their license. "Not for use by Jews" "Not for use by Republicans" It's such a bad idea that I didn't continue reading after that (yet)