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		zeveb on Sept 15, 2016 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Microsoft is now the leading company for open sour... > The GPL increases the user's freedom by forcing developers to contribute back, ie limiting the developer's freedom (to close code down). That begs the question of whether or not one has the right to limit one's users' freedom to use, modify & share code. I don't think that one does. > Likewise, BSD and MIT type licences increase developer freedom at the cost of end users. They certainly increase developer power, but power is not freedom; might does not make right.

josteink on Sept 15, 2016 [–]

I'm just starting the technical consequences of the different licences.

You're not refuting anything I say, but instead debating the morality around different licence models. And that's clearly a different and subjective argument.

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