“All that our efforts did was to make it easier for big corporations build things more cheaply and for billionaires to become trillionaires.”
Ten years of permissive licensing and the payoff was cheaper inputs for companies with market caps in the trillions. MIT and Apache licenses let anyone take your work, ship it, and give nothing back. EUPL is strong copyleft. It forces companies to reciprocate instead of just extracting, and that’s the whole point of switching.