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Working in Public: The Making and Maintenance of Open Source Software Highlight

posted on October 18, 2024 in: Quote.

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The fact that modern developers slap an MIT license onto their projects unthinkingly—if they bother to license their projects at all—separates them from early open source advocates, who built their megaphone on the dogma of “openness,” manifested through permissive licensing.

— Nadia Eghbal

Replicated under Fair Use from Working in Public: The Making and Maintenance of Open Source Software by Nadia Eghbal.