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Thinking about going open source but too afraid of hostile forks. How do you prevent people from stealing the business?
by z3t4 7y ago
Thinking about going open source but too afraid of hostile forks. How do you prevent people from stealing the business?
- NullPrefix 7y agoBy hostile you mean stolen GPL and included into proprietary tech? Or another, competing GPL product?
- z3t4 7y agoLets say some of the contributors want a piece of the cake, they make their own website, SEO, and actively tell everyone that their fork is better. The GPL license give you better protection then say MIT in this regard though.
- PaulDavisThe1st 7y agoThe world is full of risks. Got to deal with them. It helped that I had 8 years (post-amzn) not needing to make any income and thus able to build a large amount of goodwill and visibility within relevant communities. People do "steal" the software in the sense of putting it into DVD/ISO packages that they charge for. My concern has never been that everyone pays, only that enough people pay. But perhaps that's why Ableton Live changed the zeitgeist of computer music production, and Ardour is just ... Ardour.