@p @allison @mint @animeirl hey, i can respect standing up for your beliefs and in collective effort. it works. however, lisencing is an inneffectual tool outside of your anglohegemonic business realm.

>Businesses don't wanna get sued, they play it safe.
try suing a chinese company weaponizing your code. or the russian government. or any individual person in a country or region out of reach by the tentacles of the US/western copyright system

if your scope is just US big business, i won't knock it, but i'm telling you it won't work everywhere

>They picked MINIX3 because of its permissive licensing. That is how it works at places like that.
Ok. lets say the CIA decides to use linux to spy on communists or russian-sympathizers or white-supremacists. if the State respect's its own law, then the CIA will publish the source code. you are trusting the state to respect its own law, however, and they don't many times. if they can safely get away with stealing your code and wiping their ass with your lisence, why wouldn't they?

contributing to projects with permissive/public domain lisencing has a higher value to me than grudging against big corpos.