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> It's the biggest risk to open source right now. I don't think that's true. Perhaps it's a big risk to "open core" business models, but in my mind "open sourc
by spudlyo 8y ago
> It's the biggest risk to open source right now.
I don't think that's true. Perhaps it's a big risk to "open core" business models, but in my mind "open source" is not about protecting your right to monetize software. Elastic wouldn't exist without Lucene, and when Elastic was flush with over 100M in venture capital, how much do you suppose they "gave back" to the Apache Software Foundation?
There are plenty of viable FOSS business models (consulting, hosting, support, etc) that are not antithetical to my hippie pinko Stallmanesque beliefs about software, so I will not be sad to see "open core" businesses get royally forked.