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"The maintainers of open source projects have the responsibility of keeping the source destination open to everyone and not changing the rules midstream." Sinc
by kristoff_it 8y ago
"The maintainers of open source projects have the responsibility of keeping the source destination open to everyone and not changing the rules midstream."
Since when is anybody entitled to any free software. Projects can do what they want with their code, and while free software (the Stallman kind) is nice, if projects cite you as the main reason for their change of direction, you are intellectually dishonest if you just blame them for not being willing to do volunteer work (for you) anymore.
This, to me, looks like an abusive "look what you made me do".
- unethical_ban 8y agoNo one has to "not be a dick" but the world is better when you try for the goal. What the blog is saying is "If you build an open source tool and people put their time and effort to using it, closing more and more of the toolset to paid add-ons isn't cool". AWS just said "Hey, we can build those ourselves and give back to the community". They volunteered and made it happen.
- anth_anm 8y agoThey just said "Fuck you, we have more money so we own you now".