Wake up, Linux hippies: No one ‘morally obligated’ to give back

“Open…and Shut For years, open-source advocates –
including me – have demanded greater open-source
contributions from the world’s largest beneficiaries, from Google
to Morgan Stanley and the US Department of Defense. Now Amazon is
on the firing line for not giving back commensurate with the
benefits it receives from various open-source communities, and the
thinking behind the arguments are as wrong-headed as they ever
were.

“Open source, it turns out, is doing just fine, with or without
Amazon. And always will.”

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