> Would you be okay if large for profit companies didn’t have to abide by open source licenses?
Yes. I believe in the MIT licensing model.
> What’s the incentive to make movies or music just to be given away for free?
Firstly, almost all the money made from movies/music is not made by the artists who created. It goes to the shareholders of large corporations. Secondly, I believe in the hacker ethic of free information online. All media/information/etc online should be free. In the physical, making copies of anything costs time and money. Whereas copying digital items is a click of a mouse. Thirdly, artists can still make money via their fans. If fans like their stuff, those who can afford it will pay.
> Would you work for free?
Nobody is. But then again, why pay someone for something they didn't create. Licensing doesn't exist to protect artists. It exists to protect large corporations.
The open source crowd didn’t whine about closed source software. They created their own alternatives. Instead of clamoring for others to give their stuff away, work with like minded people to create your own.
Or is your time more valuable trading labor for money like most people?
> Instead of clamoring for others to give their stuff away, work with like minded people to create your own.
I'm not the one "clamoring" for anybody to give anything away.
Disney didn't work with any of the original creators of these tales, nor their surviving relatives, yet they took that "stuff" and made it solely their own.
> Or is your time more valuable trading labor for money like most people?
I think shared culture is more valuable than having it exploited and gate-kept for purely commercial purposes.
Yet we now live in a world were institutions and people can get "punished" for singing happy birthday.
It's plainly absurd, but by now so normalized that most people stopped caring or even questioning the kind of power and influence Disney has amassed trough it's questionable practices.
If a company doesn't abide the OSS license of my software I need to sue.
I want companies to sue me for eg. redistributing their content without permission.
Not being fined by the government with my own money.
Yes. I believe in the MIT licensing model.
> What’s the incentive to make movies or music just to be given away for free?
Firstly, almost all the money made from movies/music is not made by the artists who created. It goes to the shareholders of large corporations. Secondly, I believe in the hacker ethic of free information online. All media/information/etc online should be free. In the physical, making copies of anything costs time and money. Whereas copying digital items is a click of a mouse. Thirdly, artists can still make money via their fans. If fans like their stuff, those who can afford it will pay.
> Would you work for free?
Nobody is. But then again, why pay someone for something they didn't create. Licensing doesn't exist to protect artists. It exists to protect large corporations.