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> If you put your code on github with an open license, you are letting people to have their way with it.

And enough people don't understand this for it to be a problem.

Edit: Removed bad phrasing.



> In fact, making your code free for everyone to use probably is hurting the web,

It's the main reason there is a widely used public web rather than it, if it succeeded at all, being another academic niche tool alongside gopher.


Well, assuming that's true, it has little-to-no impact on how things should be going forward. The web is very clearly here to stay. At the very least people who want credit and payment for their work should not be encouraged to use OSI licenses.




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