Look, you're all riding on the back of Rasmus Lerdorf and Zend Engine, and he is riding the back of Dennis Ritchie and the C programming language, and he's... ~. Perhaps they should be sharing in the profits (and legal woes) too, no? This is the problem with open-sourced tech. — there is merely the existence of derivative work from (in this case) a base set of bits and parts that now power billions of things, and things-of-things, etc. Just like Roman letterforms carved into slabs of stone eventually used to write To Kill a Mockingbird. We all owe our success to the past discovery, invention, creation and labor of others that have "donated" their output to society, so it can be derived and formed into something else of value to said society. Even just the smallest amount of humility to this fact would be appropriate here. Sadly, I see none, from either side.

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It's all the business of product creation, built on a lack of full ownership of everything, and partial ownership of nearly nothing.

This latest Matt v. Chris p!ssing match is proof that neither gets it, at all. But when we're talking about big money, livelihood and opinions regarding the possession of X, Y or Z, fog can set in quickly.

Someone needs to blow the friggin' foghorn.