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STOP IT! Open Core is freaking not Open Source. The article states many companies have moved AWAY from open source to "source available". I will proudly die
by marknadal 7y ago
STOP IT!
Open Core is freaking not Open Source.
The article states many companies have moved AWAY from open source to "source available".
I will proudly die on this hill, to defend true Open Source, we give away our database tech used by 8M users (across non-profits, community ops, and for-profit startups) in production for free (https://github.com/amark/gun https://github.com/amark/gun).
This complaining has got to stop.
Go freaking license your code as (A)GPL and join Richard Stallman's ideology if you don't like companies using your tech.
Or be brave enough to charge proprietary license, but if you do, stop your "we're Open Source" marketing pretense. Such hypocrites.
- munmaek 7y agoEveryone likes benefiting from Open Source until someone runs with their work and makes a profit. My take from all of this is that people have no idea what they're doing when they license their work as Open Source. The go-to process currently is to slap on the MIT license, call it a day, and then forget about it until they find out someone is massively profiting from it.