Why do all of you want to literally give stuff to China for free is the obvious question, since we already have such a huge trade deficit. Yet all we ever get is vague references about how we are all human, and it would be good for the communists, oops I mean community, or other worthless tripe.
Yep, GE, it's one big conspiracy - and if only you would increase the number and volume of your posts - you could probably prevent it from taking hold. You're going to have to seriously up your output, though, since what you've done so far is obviously not working.
No it isn't. The software is free. Whether China takes advantage of that is incidental.
I've told you before, yet it didn't stick. I'll try it again.
The "community" is the authors of the software. Their charge for licensing the code is a return of any contributions to that code. They get paid in code (a "valuable consideration" in business contract speak) instead of cash (another form of valuable consideration). Reciprocal open source licenses are, by their very nature, capitalist.