The fact that today’s developers don’t just use, but actively prefer, GitHub suggests a different set of values from previous generations. The simple act of using GitHub already separates these developers from the most dogmatic free software advocates, who refuse to use the platform whatsoever. The fact that modern developers slap an MIT license onto their projects unthinkingly—if they bother to license their projects at all—separates them from early open source advocates, who built their megaphone on the dogma of “openness,” manifested through permissive licensing.
