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Did Confluent use Node? Python? Ruby? Django? Flask? Linux? Did they manage to avoid using any free and open source software? Would they have liked it any of t
by jordigh 8y ago
Did Confluent use Node? Python? Ruby? Django? Flask? Linux? Did they manage to avoid using any free and open source software?
Would they have liked it any of the things that they used said "you're not allowed to put this on a server and make money off it"? I wager they wouldn't.
People are saying that Confluent have every right to be doing this. They certainly do, but it's not very reciprocal of them to do so. If we're going to be so worried about Confluent's income, we should also be worried about the income of all the forgotten software developers that Confluent has likely based their business on, and I don't think the answer is for everyone to start forbidding making money on servers unless they wrote all of their money-making server software themselves.
These new breeds of licenses with anti-AWS clauses trying to make sure that Amazon doesn't make too much money are also harming in their wake many other developers. Software development as a whole is going to be getting poorer if enough people want to forbid making money on a server.
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- dhimes 8y agoMy understanding is that you can use Confluent's software to run your own stack and offer a service, and you can do that for free. You just can't offer a service that competes directly with theirs. It's like if Google said, "Here's our search algorithm. You are free to use it on your website behind your paywall to give your users a better experience, but you are NOT allowed to use it to establish a competing search service on the broader internet. I don't really have a problem with it- I think it's fair. I think the question of whether it should be allowed on Github is fair- can someone accidentally find themselves legally bound? But it's probably an edge case.
- a3n 8y agoIn the 90s microsoft prohibited you from selling a compiler built with their compiler. Edit: microsoft