> Permissive opensource licensing that lets companies extract infinite value while giving nothing back

Why is this categorised as a "broken system"? I keep seeing this written about OSS, and it's just not true. I can choose to volunteer at a charity, and I can choose to sign a contract and get a day job. The charity is not extracting infinite value from me; I chose to do work for no recompense.

And, just to drive the point home about the ignorance of the people that peddle this sort of thing, why is the estimated value of this code "infinite"?

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arielcostas a day ago | parent | next [-]

Would you volunteer if, instead of a charity, it was a corporation? Would you go work at any tech company for free while they make thousands of millions off that work?

	▲	_aavaa_ a day ago \| parent [-]
		The maintainer of this package can stop whenever they want. They can stop dealing with bugs unrelated to their own use case (android) whenever they feel like it.

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nolroz a day ago | parent | prev [-]

Because while you can give as much time as you like as a single person, the charity can't clone you an infinite amount of times and get infinite value out of you for free.