I’m finding most of what I’d ask on SO can be asked on the tools GitHub issues. If a product doesn’t offer a support form or GitHub issues it doesn’t get used for me.

So the first line of what you quite says you can’t.

I’m a professional developer. If I learn and use it in my job, I’m in violation of the licese.

What I mean by value is the ability to learn and use it as you wish. Without worry of if your going against a license.

What’s the point of source available if I’m never allowed to derive value from it?

I’m not confusing the two. If I copy the “source available” and accidently remember it in a “commercial” product, I’m technically hooped. It’s considered derivative work and therefore I’m in violation of the license. Regardless if I’m a simple app dev or Google.

Also, like I said a few times now. I done own the code I contribute. Technically meaning if you contribute code, and use that snippet in a commercial context, again, your in violation of the license.

This is why copy left is the defacto standard. The author of the code retains copywrite ownership of it.

Your still resolving solved problems.

I never said anything about you or your arguments. I was talking about the analogies the person used to antagonize everyone. And I love how you glossed over all of that to get a little bit hurt at me.

But while your here, your fighting the wrong battles.

Because we are much stronger doing things in the open than we will trying to pick and choose who gets to do what. Even small utilities can contribute to people learning and adapting.

So what if google also benefits? They benefit off of using TCP, SSL, and thousands of standard technology. Should those be charged as well? It’s such a boogy man at the cost of other people learning and benefiting from what you’ve done the same way you benfit from others. It’s not about gatekeeping, it’s about being community.

I’m gonna draw another place I think too much effort is being given to making sure the “correct” people benefit and that’s selective welfare programs. It’s costs shit tons of money to administer programs like food stamps. When if we gave everyone UBI, it wouldn’t matter. Because everyone gets it.

EDIT: In a copy left license, I still own the copyright to my work. So there’s that as well.

But all that on a shelf. I don’t give a fuck what you do with your software. I just don’t want to be called a racists for whatever reason because I believe in community owned software.

Oh yeah. People believing in community built and owned software, that runs the entire internet, is totally the same thing as racism. 🙄🤣

Just because you don’t agree with the views of open source, doesn’t make them brainwashed.

Because here, you come off as deranged calling others religious fanatics.

EDIT but what’s really fucking funny to me is you call other people religious fanatics and racists. Or at least like them. While you fanatically paste the anti commercial linecse thing like it’s 2012 Facebook again.