This reminds me of that time there was a critical vulnerability in some core open source library that basically everyone depends on, and there was no one around to fix it or something. I want to say it was 2015? I can’t remember the name of the software package.
OpenSSL heart bleed, for sure
Great example of corporations just taking from open source and not giving back a dime because fuck you, give us your work!
I'd love to see a GPL version where if you're a company, and you make more than x amount of profit with open source projects, that you gotta fund it with y amount, depending on your profit or something
ALL big tech companies have gotten ginormous thanks to open source software, and though some have given back something, and some have done some funding, it's always been such few pennies on so many dollars that it might as well have been slavery. Add to that that many times what was given back was only given back because it was a good thing, strategically, for them.
Tech companies are abusive as fuck which made them so insanely big, powerful and rich and this nonsense has to stop
Open source is awesome and ALL software should be open source as far as I'm concerned, but the abuse from tech corporations has to stop
OpenSSL?
I think that might have been it.
xz?
Someone else said OpenSSL. I think that’s what it was.
Even if the license allow to use it commercially I don't think this is allow to abuse it when the only brake restricting you from donating is capitalism. These companies worth more than 3T, and they are thinking long to donate to their fondations...
With how short a time they give, if I wanted to cause chaos and previously had to do hard work to find big flaws, now all I have to do is sit back and wait for google to hand me the keys to someone else's system now.
But what will our llms do?!
Yas Queen
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