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The horrors of non-free software...

When I become king of the United Continents, I will make a new rule: If you don't publish high-quality updates for your software for one year, it will become open source automatically.



Mm. I think "any" update would be sufficient for 95% of cases, doesn't have to be high-quality.

Even if it's just the copyright date changing at least once per year, that tells you one specific named entity is claiming to care about it: when nobody does even that much, everyone automatically has the right to do whatever they want with the software.

Which reminds me, I need to update the copyright date on my website…


> If you don't publish high-quality updates for your software for one year,

I don't think that Microsoft or Google will like this.


I don’t like it either but he’d be ‘king’ so it wouldn’t really matter if anyone liked it or not



Forced enshittification?




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