Opensource / free software for me is a manifestation of my wider ideal: that everybody owning a computation device shoul...

Opensource / free software for me is a manifestation of my wider ideal: that everybody owning a computation device should be able to use it to compute in a way that they have agency over and hopefully enriches their lives. It is not for me about who created what and getting recognition for it, although that sure is nice. I protested against software patents in the early aughts and slapped the MIT license on my software out of laziness / to not be for no good reason stripping copyright from other source. That said, the MIT attribution was always lip service, companies burying them in a long text buried in menus no one ever reads. I didn’t put the GPL in it because I don’t care if a company uses my code, at least hopefully it would be better than whatever rushed replacement they might otherwise choose.That the free software movement chose copyright as a “feiner fug” (clever hack) has to be placed in the context of the 80-90ies, and it probably was part of the continued “unity” of the Lin...