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How Ruby Went Off the Rails (www.404media.co)

submitted 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) by kennedy@lemmy.dbzer0.com to c/foss@beehaw.org

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[–] irotsoma@piefed.blahaj.zone 22 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

More evidence that although I love the idea of the MIT license, it is not good when large corporate interests and their money get involved. It's too easy for the code to get scooped up and relicensed or just hidden away. Copyleft licensed projects are the only ones I'll work on anymore.

[–] erock@lemmy.ml 12 points 1 month ago

IP and copyright are both tools used to control individuals, not corporations. We are seeing the reality in realtime with LLMs disregarding them wholesale.