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pessimizer on March 18, 2021 | parent | context | favorite | on: What’s up with these new not-open source licenses?

> The spirit of collaboration and working for a common good absolutely used to exist.

That currently still exists. It has nothing in particular to do with software, though. People collaborate, academics collaborate. Are you telling me that massive corporations were part of this back in the good old days, just helping people for the fun of it?

838812052807016 on March 18, 2021 [–]

I wonder what would happen if there was a law which forbade corporations from pursuing anything going against the common good?

Or a law which only allowed companies to pursue the common good?

oflanac52 on March 19, 2021 | [–]

That would probably mean, for some, shutting down entire industries i.e. smoking, gambling..

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