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Libxml2's "no security embargoes" policy

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298 points jwilk | 1 comments | 25 Jun 25 19:36 UTC | HN request time: 0.205s | 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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spott ◴[26 Jun 25 02:03 UTC] No.44383593[source]▶
This makes an assumption that a bunch of companies are maintaining their own forks of MIT software with bug fixes and features and not giving it back.

I find that hard to believe.

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1. __turbobrew__ ◴[28 Jun 25 05:57 UTC] No.44402562[source]▶
I work a bigco and this happens all the time. I have probably written 20 patches for open source stuff like kubernetes, but when I open a pull request nobody on the project looks at it and it sits open forever. We keep patch sets internally and rebase on top of upstream as some project will not take our contributions.