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Creating open source software is a choice. No one is required to do it. That choice has both benefits and potential negative consequences if your goal is to com
by tedivm 7y ago
Creating open source software is a choice. No one is required to do it. That choice has both benefits and potential negative consequences if your goal is to commercialize.
The benefits include things like volunteer labor, more alpha testers, and community goodwill. The negative is that you have less control over how your software is used.
I don't have an answer to how we can stop AWS from reselling open source software. I do know that redefining open source is not the way to handle it though.
- rhinoceraptor 7y ago> how we can stop AWS from reselling open source software AWS has more than enough resources to re-implement (or fork/maintain) your software. So if you write a license that pisses off your own community and prevents AWS from using it, then that's probably what they're going to do, and now you have no users. The answer to AWS running a hosted version of your software is, encourage it and ask for patches and contributions back.
- dorfsmay 7y agoExactly, and they made the choice to no longer do it. Feel free to fork it and maintain their effort.
- Spivak 7y agoWhich if fine. They're allowed to do it. The community of people who use and contribute to the project also get to be mad about it. Look, if Sentry wants to make money selling their software they should have just been proprietary from the beginning.
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