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Originally Posted by kojacker View Post
up. And I may be confusing things - Im not from a open source background and I don't understand it. I really don't understand all the various licenses. I like the idea of open and collaborative projects, I don't like people freely sharing commercial code behind a developer's back. Apart from any monetary loss it's not respectful to the developer to do so, I'm sure it would make a developer think twice about developing again if he found his commercial deb linked on a public forum. From what I can see, open source (or what is passing off as it) is not a philosophy I wanna subscribe to at this time.
There has been a mixup - what you write about has nothing to do with open source. Piracy is piracy, self-righteousness is self-righteousness, idiocy is idiocy, no matter what the development philosophy is. You don't develop software (open or proprietary) because of the (no mattery how many) people who feel entitled to get, judge and demand anything just because they acquired a piece of hardware that can run it. You do it for the people who DO respect the effort, either by paying, thanking, writing postcards, whatever. Again, it has nothing to with open source. The Stellarium example is just a super-complicated case with a lot of 'that should have been played a lot smarter' episodes.
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