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The point is that it's impossible to tell what is Evil and what is Good. It entirely depends on your point of reference. We release about 40% of Shopify's code
by xal 17y ago
The point is that it's impossible to tell what is Evil and what is Good. It entirely depends on your point of reference.
We release about 40% of Shopify's code base as open source. There are numerous knockoffs both closed source and open source that use all of our open source ( and even our themes, templates, js and css! ) to make competing products. This sucks for us and is certainly evil from our perspective but it's silly to change a battle hardened OSI license to prevent people from doing that.
- kelnos 17y agoHow is that evil from anyone's perspective? You released code under a license that said people could do certain things with it. So they did those certain things with it, and you think that's evil? Huh? (Of course, if people are using the software in ways at odds with your license, you have legal recourse, in which case... why aren't you taking legal action?)
- xal 17y agoThere are a ton of things you can do with our code that isn't actively marketing to our exact customer base. According to numbers we got recently more then 30% of all deployed commercial rails apps use ActiveMerchant which probably means tens of thousands. Only a handful are e-commerce systems.
- kelnos 17y agoSure, but how is that "evil"?