Mastodawn

just idly remembering how a bunch of guys got incredibly mad when I relicensed *my own work* from MIT to Apache 2

the reason I did this is that Apache 2 gives the author greater protection from vexatious lawsuits while placing no real additional burdens on users

if someone can just strip the license off a published work you as an author have *zero* protection

i.e. this would be a really effective way to destroy FOSS by exposing authors to an enormous volume of legal risk they were previously shielded from

the genAI industry is a project to enclose and then destroy the commons and then rent it back to everyone. it is digital feudalism

@jcoglan It's the old game of capitalism: making you pay dearly for what used to be free