Software Licenses and Workers' Rights · Agent IO
Huh, this is a thought-provoking blog post about OSS licensing.
It is observably and objectively bad for society when investors own closed-source software. That starts by being bad for tech workers, creators lose the right to the value that they create, and users are still harmed because they don’t get the protection from spying and abuse that open source promised them.
[...] The open source movement is a ladder that leans on the wall of users’ rights. We’ve spent forty years climbing that ladder. Where are we now? Our world is controlled by moguls who’ve built empires using open source software that they’ve locked behind proprietary barriers. Those empires exploit workers and harm the users that the open source movement was supposed to protect.
Our ladder is leaning on the wrong wall.
Tags: open-source closed-source oss licensing freedom software rights