Steve Troughton-SmithApr 15, 2024

My advice to newcomers: never open-source something you wouldn't be happy to see somebody else clone, rebrand, and resell.

If you want to open source cool things, open source the parts and components that will help other people build their own amazing apps with. Not full products.

It doesn’t really matter what license you pick, because the only people who will actually adhere to it are the bigger companies with legal advisors

Show threadNoel WallingApr 15, 2024
@stroughtonsmith “But they stole my (open source) software” cries the person enabling the theft of (not open source) software. 🙄
Show threadTaylor HaddenApr 19, 2024

@Noelwalling @stroughtonsmith Emulation is not piracy.

Piracy is not theft.

Show threadNoel Walling
@taylorhadden @stroughtonsmith Emulation is not. Distribution of others’ work for free or for profit is absolutely theft, as Riley found out when he complained that someone ripped off his open source emulator. A wildly ironic twist of fate.
Apr 19, 2024 at 10:52pmWeb
Show threadTaylor HaddenApr 20, 2024
@Noelwalling @stroughtonsmith Given that we’re both part of the industry being impinged upon, I don’t want to get overly pedantic. I just don’t think “theft” is the right word for copyright infringement.