Pluralistic: “If buying isn’t owning, piracy isn’t stealing” (08 Dec 2023) – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow
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The ability to change features, prices, and availability of things you’ve already paid for is a powerful temptation to corporations.

  • grue@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    11 months ago

    Why don’t you just gift away your software than?

    Because I don’t make those decisions; my employer does. They ought to give it away, but they don’t.

    (The software I’ve worked on has tended to be either (a) tools for internal company use or (b) stuff used by the government/large companies where the revenue would definitely have come from a support contract even if the code itself were free.)