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by nine_k 446 days ago
Mr Crockford has trolled the entire industry with the JSON license: https://www.json.org/license.html It states that it can be used for good, but not for evil.

The problem is, of course, in the lack of an established, clear-cut, whole-society consensus on what is good and what is evil, and also in the inability of humans to formally define even their own criteria for that. As with porn, "I can recognize it when I see it" is a bit shaky ground for legal matters.

Speaking of the For-Profit Corporations, the profit is what pays the wages of those they employ, so, unless you agree to do programming (or any professional activity) entirely as a pastime,..

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The revenue is what pays the wages. Wages are a business expense, not an optional benefit. I don’t like this response. It comes across as very “but you use a cell phone” to me. Yes, the world we live in is fueled by profit. It’s not a good thing to me.