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Libxml2's "no security embargoes" policy

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278 points jwilk | 4 comments | 25 Jun 25 19:36 UTC | HN request time: 0.633s | source
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kibwen ◴[25 Jun 25 22:01 UTC] No.44382195[source]▶
> Ariadne Conill, a long-time open-source contributor, observed that corporations using open source had responded with ""regulatory capture of the commons"" instead of contributing to the software they depend on.

I'm only half-joking when I say that one of the premier selling points of GPL over MIT in this day and age is that it explicitly deters these freeloading multibillion-dollar companies from depending on your software and making demands of your time.

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xxpor ◴[25 Jun 25 22:03 UTC] No.44382211[source]▶
Why bother open sourcing if you're not interested in getting people to use it?
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itsanaccount ◴[25 Jun 25 22:06 UTC] No.44382234[source]▶
you seem to have mistaken corporations for people.
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1. kortilla ◴[25 Jun 25 22:08 UTC] No.44382250[source]▶
You seem to think corporations aren’t made of people
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2. dsr_ ◴[25 Jun 25 22:22 UTC] No.44382321[source]▶
Sheds are made of wood, but they aren't trees.
3. eikenberry ◴[26 Jun 25 00:24 UTC] No.44383088[source]▶
Groups of people are not the same as the people that make them up. They think differently and have different motivations.
4. codedokode ◴[26 Jun 25 05:53 UTC] No.44384543[source]▶
Corporations are made of rich stock owners.