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That was an incredibly interesting read, and I learned a lot! Thank you for posting it!
It’s genuinely infuriating that so much labor is simply stolen, in so many different ways, from people with a passion for what they do, and turned into profit for some mega corp, with the vast majority funneled to a few people completely unrelated to ~~the~~ any work.
Anyone who doesn't work for themselves is getting their labor stolen, and that includes me. The name for this type of systemic crime is "capitalism."
Not if you are being compensated for your labour. The actual crime that describes stolen labour is "slavery"
I think you could make an argument that being compensated for your labour, but way under the value your labour produces and also under the constant threat of homelessness and starvation if you don't do it is still an unethical system.
Nothing was stolen. The authors choose to give it away, for free, with no strings. That's not theft.
No one forced them to choose that license, and no one forced anyone to contribute to that project.
I wouldn't call the L/GPL "no strings".
True. I should have been more specific. No strings in that there should be no expectation of receiving anything in return.