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Then code for free. Open source is a huge threat to these fuckers that made you bust your asses and then NOT HIRE YOU ANYWAY.
They are hoping you just do something else. I say code something else and take their fucking power away.
A threat? They will be more than happy to take work done for free and use it for their own needs. I guess at least if it's a copyleft license they can't just outright steal it.
All the big tech companies are built on open source projects... No idea what the guy you replied to was on about.
Any useful thing you code will be used to feed the beast.
Usually companies avoid GPL code like a plague
That's where the magic plagiarism LLM comes in to launder the code.
Company: “buy this code from us” Consumer: “no, the guy you stole from is giving it away for free. We’ll take from him directly and cut you out.” Company: Vaderno.wav