Nat Friedman: commitment

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…What do you make of critics of modern open source like Richard Stallman or people who advocate for free software saying that – Well, corporations might advocate for open source because of practical reasons for getting good code. And the real way the software should be made – it should be free and that you can replicate it, you can change it, you can modify it and you can completely view it. And the ethical values about that should be more important than the practical values. What do you make of that critique? I think those are the things that he wants and the thing that maybe he hasn't updated is that maybe not everyone else wants that. He has this idea that people want freedom from the tyranny of a proprietary intellectual property license. But what people really want is freedom from having to configure their graphics card or sound driver or something like that. They want their computer to work. There are places where freedom is really valuable. But there's always this thing of – I have a prescriptive ideology that I'd like to impose on the world versus this thing of – I will try to develop the best observational model for what people actually want whether I want them to want it or not. And I think Richard is strongly in the former camp. What is the most underrated license by the way?…

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