Thankfully, others are more altruistic. I have benefited from many developers freely sharing their ideas in forums, code on github, and leanings on blogs.
Sure Google has stolen it to build an empire that most are complicit with.
Sure OpenAI has stolen it to build products most are supportive of.
Sure evil benefits from good, but that doesn't mean we should neglect to help others just to spite them.
My hope is that there's a middle ground, a way to keep our good deeds for the benefit of other good people, not for the benefit of large corporations that want to leech off of our work.
The law usually lags behind technological advancement, and I'm hoping we're just seeing this in action right now, and that over time, better legal protections will be put into place.
there's "sharing ideas on forums" and then there's giving all of your source code, public and private, to Microsoft to host, instead of just setting your git remote to user@yourownhost:/path/to/reponame and setting up SSH keys
I appreciate the viewpoint of the GP and it's telling that it is downvoted when it is not spam, it is not abusive, and it is fully in-line with the stated and implicit etiquette of this site. It's just unpopular, so people are down-voting it.
FOSS is kind of culty and it's very apparent in the reaction to opinions like the OP's. If you don't believe what he said about giving up your agency and your fate when you give away your code online, look into what happened to fommil[0]
Sure Google has stolen it to build an empire that most are complicit with.
Sure OpenAI has stolen it to build products most are supportive of.
Sure evil benefits from good, but that doesn't mean we should neglect to help others just to spite them.