Comment by bluefirebrand
12 hours ago
> If you take my gift and profit, it doesn't hurt me
My opinion is that it actually hurts everyone when the open source commons are looted for private profits
12 hours ago
> If you take my gift and profit, it doesn't hurt me
My opinion is that it actually hurts everyone when the open source commons are looted for private profits
Carmack is wealthy, and will do OK even if every single software-related job is terminated and human-mediated code-generation is relegated to hobby-status. Other people's milages vary.
My motivations are very different: the projects I authored and maintained were deliberately all GPL-licensed, my contributions to other OSS are motivated by the desire to help other people - not to an amorphous "world."
Correct. And certainly not to people and companies who'd like to use my work to deny end users the rights to control their computing.
That's the whole point of the GPL to me. The code I release is not an unconditional gift. It definitely has strings attached on purpose.
LLMs completely break this. I'm helping very rich people build the systems they impose to the world and that have awful externalities, and these systems help others build proprietary software. I can't say I'm too happy about this.
So, definitely not just for corporations to make insanely massive profits off?
How much do you think people would pay for this patch?
https://github.com/openssl/openssl/pull/1320
If you had to pay for it seperately, would you include it in anything?
And yet, including it everywhere helps people with clients that can't be upgraded. Maybe less now, rsa_dhe is not deployed so much and hopefully windows 8 is also not deployed so much.