"FOSS" doesn't mean that you cannot monetize your program.

It's just that people have taken different routes historically.

Sell the program or give it away for free, to me both is fine. But to release the source code for free, then complain that other people take it and sell it - that's ridiculous.

If I give away my secret sauce recipe, I have no right to complain if somebody puts it in a bottle and sells it. Either you keep it to yourself or you don't.

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derektank 2 hours ago | parent | next [-]

> Either you keep it to yourself or you don't.

Governments have presented us with a third option, intellectual property, which allows a creator to release their intellectual contributions publicly while preventing someone else from reproducing it. Violating the terms of an open source license are generally considered intellectual property violations and allow the creator to seek damages.

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carlosjobim an hour ago | parent [-]

Good luck with that. If you throw your wallet onto a busy street corner, then by the law nobody is allowed to take it either. But cops will tell you that they have more important things to take care of than victims who take every measurable action at hand to make themselves victims.

	▲	bluefirebrand 12 minutes ago \| parent [-]
		There are a lot of things that are immoral (or just rude) to do but not explicitly illegal Personally I would prefer to live in a society filled with people who are better than thinking "well there's no law against it so it's 100% fine" Edit: I also don't want to live in a society where every tiny piece of social decency must be encoded in laws to get people to actually be decent

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InsideOutSanta 2 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

Every book contains all of its content. It's "open source" by necessity. Are you saying that if you buy a book, you can do with the contents of the book whatever you want?

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carlosjobim an hour ago | parent | next [-]

Computer code is not comparable to a book. A better comparison would be a blueprint or a recipe. If Coca-Cola publishes their recipe wide and far for anybody to read, would you rage together with them when another beverage company starts selling drinks together with them?

	▲	zelphirkalt an hour ago \| parent [-]
		Computer code is also not comparable with a wallet thrown onto a busy street corner. Can you decide, whether you are OK with unfit comparisons or not, instead of trying to have it both ways?

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