Should we shift away from public, free as in freedom for all, licensing systems to more restricted alternatives, like copyfair?
I've started thinking that fossoftware and the whole concept of open source is being exploited by corporations and especially monopolizing ones.
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Indie devs and non-profits would work on a project, but a corpo will easily copy the whole thing without giving back, or even repackage it and make profit off of it.
Or, a privately owned company will publish a part of its product, only to get free and fast bugfixes, new features and implementations.
The above can be seen in Meta creating Threads, which would be later on built on ActivityPub, stealing users or probable users from other platforms, while also stealing user data and using it any way they please. (Even though the alternative platforms are explicitly against that).
The second scenario, is *AFAIK* reminiscent of what happened with Twitter publishing its "The Algorithm" on GitHub.
Should we start using licensing systems which are similar to GPL, but restricting to commercial entities, either by requiring reciprocity or banning them altogether...
Or should we stick to free for all licenses, because if companies start using free technology, people will be acquainted with more libre alternatives and subsequently jump over to them?
TL:DR
Is commercial exploitation of FOSS a threat or not?
@andrewgeo the about of data that they will be able to scrap from other servers will just be your information on your profile IF you interact with Threads server and your toots which are already public and any message you send someone on Threads (when that is available). I don't like their data scrapping policies but I don't think it's a massive cause for concern for Fediverse users interacting outside of Threads.
@thehunt Sorry, what I meant was, that even though many users have better platforms to sign up to, which won't scrape and own their data, they will still use Threads.
It's not a problem for Mastodon or every other fediverse instance, sure. But, it's still bad that for some users their first impression of it will come from Meta and a cluttered ad-driven, influencer-suggesting interface. I don't know if that will drive people off or send them to more community driven places, like here.
@andrewgeo oh yeah 100% agree with you!