> I didn't get that impression at all. My take is that he's simply providing a view of OSS through the lens of financial transactions.
Which totally misses the point, since open source works as a gift economy [0]
Which totally misses the point, since open source works as a gift economy [0]
Some give, others take.
I guess that's how things work in gift economies in real life, too.
I think both ideas exist in copyleft licenses, but were lost in the more permissive MIT-style licenses. Sometimes I wonder if maintainers feel burned because they use more permissive licenses, which might be standard in their ecosystem, but unconsciously have a different gift culture.