Comment by ironman1478
2 months ago
Open source has been good, but I think the expanded use of highly permissive licences has completely left the door open for one sided transactions.
All the FAANGs have the ability to build all the open source tools they consume internally. Why give it to them for free and not have the expectation that they'll contribute something back?
Even the GPL allows companies to simply use code without contributing back, long as it's unmodified, or through a network boundary. the AGPL has the former issue.
This goes against what Stallman believes in, but there's a need for AGPL with a clause against closed-weight models.
At least the contribution back can happen. You're right though, it's not perfect.