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How will you know who's using your FOSS project?
by riyakhanna1983 7y ago
How will you know who's using your FOSS project?
- throwaway86534 7y agodon't want to point fingers here but when they start yet another "FOSS project as service on their platform"? mainly i don't want to prevent other startups or mid size companies from using it, but the big platforms have a tendency to just change or tweak the project in small way to suit their platform which causes incompatibilities with upstream, secondly imho it is not fair for the project, since the project is trying to survive while these platforms get bigger and mint money off project contributors work without ever giving back or affecting it adversely sometimes by taking control of the project.
- gtirloni 7y agoStartups and midsized companies do the same all the time. Are you drawing the line on profit? Number of employees? As others have said, if you want to make a political statement go for it and name all the companies you don't want using your software explicitly (and keep updating that when they work around you). Personally, I wouldn't bother. If this is for a business idea, rethink your revenue strategy... licensing alone is a nightmare to enforce.