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kibwen ◴[] 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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1. tzs ◴[] No.44385638[source]
From a maintainers point of view there is no difference between someone from a large company reporting a bug and some random hobby programmer reporting a bug.