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With GPL, you're programming Freedom. With MIT, you're programming for free.

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If I want to make a piece of software to improve people's lives

If that is your intention, GPL would make more sense, as every improvement and development would be forced to be made available to those people, thus helping them further.

I doubt that your code helps anyone who needs/deserves to be helped, after beeing processed by big corpo.

You could think about your definition of freedom. For me: My freedom ends, where it restricts others people freedom - I shouldn't be free to rob people and call it restriction if someone forbids this.

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Your PC will thank you...

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For me worked:

  • Install Debian
  • be confused by all the options in the installation process, look up every unknown word, try to do everything manualy, fail
  • start installation process again, choose all the defaults, works!
  • trying to install a programm with terminal, fail because not in sudo list, look up how to get into sudo list
  • update in terminal doesn't work, have to remove some lines in /etc/apt/sources.list - look up how to use the text editor nano, look many yt-videos about Linux filesystem (what to those folders mean? Everything is a file?)
  • try to resize a partition (can't remember which), can't, because I didn't choose LVM in installation process - install Debian again, and do all the steps above again

I think I had to reinstall Debian 5 more times after that, just because I didn't know what I was doing and it was an easy reset for me.

Very frustraiting at times, and a very rewarding feeling when something worked. Made me love tech again, 10/10 would do again.

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[meme] True story from my neighborhood

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If you take my city as an example: everything is build around cars, we don't have any bike lanes. To fix this, they painted those dottet lines on the road, easy to ignore for drivers.

The knowledge that they have to take away space from car infrastructure to repurpose it for sidewalks and bikelanes would be a huge step, because there is simply no other solution. Every expertise the city ordered is saying it, but they still won't except the facts and try to weasel out with those painted bike lanes.

So in general you are right, one shouldn't be happy when your gain is based on another beings loss. But in infrastructure planing terms it would simply make the city a better place for everyone.