Over at the Meshed Insights blog, Simon Phipps writes about why the public domain falls short and more detailed licensing is needed in order to extend rights to a software community.
Yes, public domain may give you the rights you need. But in an open source project, it's not enough for you to determine you personally have the rights you need. In order to function, every user and contributor of the project needs prior confidence they can use, improve and share the code, regardless of their location or the use to which they put it. That confidence also has to extend to their colleagues, customers and community as well.
Source : The Universal Donor
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday January 18 2018, @08:02PM (5 children)
Funny, my personal experience is exactly the opposite.
I've spent my career earning jack shit for making backend networking code that lets people communicate with each other. They never communicate with me, though. I'm nobody.
Software behind the scenes that nobody knows or cares about isn't valuable enough to pay for. It's just not visible enough.
Interesting choice of words, "coding on FOSS platforms." How much of your actual code is open source, dear person who pretends to code open source for pay?
(Score: 2) by turgid on Thursday January 18 2018, @08:53PM (3 children)
I never pretended to code open source for pay, although I did work for $LARGEUNIXCO many years ago integrating FOSS into the OS (and I have 3 lines of code in the kernel, which was open sourced...)
In my spare time I dabble and have put one or two silly little things on the Intertubes, mostly for comedy value.
However, I have invested time and energy helping newbies get up to speed with Linux (privately and in a corporate setting) so I'm not a complete and utter leach on "the Community." And I have a Slackware subscription.
I refuse to engage in a battle of wits with an unarmed opponent [wikipedia.org].
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday January 18 2018, @09:04PM (2 children)
Spoken like a leech.
Vote Tory to keep your ill-gotten money.
(Score: 2) by turgid on Thursday January 18 2018, @09:07PM (1 child)
Ha ha! :-)
I refuse to engage in a battle of wits with an unarmed opponent [wikipedia.org].
(Score: 1, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Friday January 19 2018, @03:58AM
For the full effect, let Nelson do that for you.
Simpsons clip - 3 seconds [youtube.com]
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(Score: 2) by turgid on Thursday January 18 2018, @09:02PM
Oh yes it is. One particular thing I worked on is on at least 500 000 devices. That was years ago. I bet it's twice that now.
I refuse to engage in a battle of wits with an unarmed opponent [wikipedia.org].