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rob74 on April 3, 2023 | parent | context | favorite | on: Saying Goodbye to GitHub

You're allowed to make money from Free/OSS code, and plenty of companies have (Google, Amazon etc.), but they have always also at least given back something to the community to earn some good will. The situation with AI is new because it not only doesn't give anything back, it actually takes something away by threatening developers' jobs etc.

dolmen on April 3, 2023 [–]

> they have always also at least given back something to the community to earn some good will

The busybox authors disagree: https://busybox.net/license.html

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