• MonkeMischief@lemmy.today
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    1 hour ago

    “Look, I wrote this neat highly advanced machine vision thing to help people with accessibility needs communicate with loved ones! ❤️. MIT licensed I guess! Let’s make the world better!”

    Raytheon, Northropp, Boeing, Microsoft, three-letter-agencies suddenly fork it as a base for their own “projects.”

    😐

    • Denys Nykula@piefed.social
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      23 minutes ago

      Institutions with monopoly on violence or companies that they deal with don’t care whether software is released as MIT or AGPL, they just take it and build on it. (Maybe that’s exactly what you mean though, I’m not sure.)