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		tmtvl on May 8, 2023 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Please don’t upload my code on GitHub If I make a helmet with tracking to help rescue miners after a collapse I will not want to see it used by Qatar to track slaves: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33675370 This may seem an extreme comparison, but to one who deeply cares about Free Software as defined by the FSF, proprietary software is bad. That's the difference between people who prefer Apache/BSD/MIT licenses versus those who prefer the (A)GPL.

rcoveson on May 8, 2023 [–]

That’s like saying that pacifists who refuse to own guns don’t really think war is bad, because they won’t take up arms to implement peace.

Fighting fire with fire is one option. Fighting fire with water is another.

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