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by qa_acc 1093 days ago
Nowadays I feel like a fool , why should I do open source contribution? To enrich these big corporation that thank you with that behaviours and pissing a you professional category ?

- They stole your code embedding it in close commercial crap without credits for the authors nor source code publishing;

- They stole your code using it to create AI appliance that are absolutely not intelligent but act like indirection layer to nullify the license and than they say that developer can be substitute but those "AI" appliances;

- As Mr. Geerling point out, now they shamelessly pass on the GPL license without fear of retaliation;

I hope that the community will do its move, first of all updating the GPL to explicitly forbid this loophole, I'm talking about paywall and illegal restriction of the source code distribution. Moreover , I think some kind of open source licence enforcement organisation should exist. Licenses without enforcement are hot air. For plenty of that organisation Open Source programmers are only simpletons , not dedicated peoples building their fortune. IMHO, I would like to see the possibility to bill for commercial use of open source code easily with license that explicitly cover this area and, again, organisation doing enforcement. Time is a priceless resource and IMHO is inconceivable that corporation etc reduce open source programmers to the role of slave workers of third world countries.