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Back in the '90s, people used to say "hackers build FOSS to scratch an itch, not for the money" and "it's both free as in speech and free as in beer" and FOSS a
by ThrowawayR2 7y ago
Back in the '90s, people used to say "hackers build FOSS to scratch an itch, not for the money" and "it's both free as in speech and free as in beer" and FOSS as a movement flourished.
Now in the '10s, the johnny-come-latelies and MBAs are thinking "We want the geek cred and goodwill for being open source but OMG look at all the sweet, sweet dollars sloshing around; we want a piece of the pie too". Thus, you get FOSS-wannabe licenses like open core and shared source that try to have it both ways.