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Why haven't corporations bribed their way through copyleft (licenses) yet? (lemmy.ml)

submitted 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) by Amicchan@lemmy.ml to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

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I thought companies could bribe through the legal system, so why not licenses?

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[–] electrodynamica@mander.xyz 3 points 2 years ago (1 children)

The thing I don't like about copyleft is the implication that a license is even a valid thing. I get it, in the Church of Satan kind of beat them at their own game thing... But... Shouldn't we just obsolete scarcity and publish everything public domain if we really believe in free ideas?

[–] southerntofu@lemmy.ml 3 points 2 years ago

Yes and no. On a raw principle, yes. But what are the practical consequences of non-copyleft licenses? It's just more corporate exploitation of volunteer maintainers, as we see in the open-source ecosystem.