How to bypass GPL (easy tutorial)

lemmur@szmer.info to Open Source@lemmy.ml – 249 points –
  1. Be a huge company
  2. Buy one of the biggest FOSS hosting websites
  3. Train AI model on code from your purchase
  4. Paywall and restrict access to the model for everyone except you
  5. Laught at Stallman and his lifework
  6. Profit
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While I've been considering the switch, for anyone newly reading this, there is bias. Gitea claims the company they formed will not build enterprise-only features, and exist solely to charge for support contracts. In nearly a year since, this has been true, and Forgeja appears to be a soft fork unless that changes. Plenty of open source companies exist, you may even be posting from one.

Oh fine then. So, just like Micro$oft VSCode and Codium.

I am posting from open-source software built by nonprofit organizations, like Mozilla Firefox. The Linux Kernel seems also to be developed by a legal entity. So, maybe it also counts?

P. S. And yeah, I'm using a distro made by a for-profit company (that one with an X logo but not that one)

So you are on MX Linux?

Nope, Tuxedo's stock OS that is based on Kubuntu but without snaps

You stating "for-profit company" should have been a hint that I could not possibly have beeen correct. I should read better. 😆