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by jraph 5 days ago
That's somewhat beside the point and bayindirh addressed this, but I'll answer to this bit:

> I'm going to open source my software so the world can use it for whatever they want!

Well, no, it's rarely "for whatever they want". Most open source licenses require attribution, and copyleft licenses require sharing any derivative work under the same license under some conditions. The terms of the licenses open source developer matter and are not there just to look pretty.

This idea that free software is released under no conditions needs to die. The few restrictions open source developers want for their code need to be respected!

And yes, I'm kinda mad the few lines of code I released to the world probably helped those despicable companies to train their despicable artifacts. We couldn't have possibly anticipated that this was coming, but now we know, and indeed the question of releasing publicly at all should be reconsidered. At the same time, we can't always stop doing anything that has bad consequences because otherwise we stop doing anything. So yes, I might both continue publishing free software and be mad at the same time. Any objection?