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> The change will affect corporations that want to take our code and use it to create and sell proprietary tools that directly compete with us. I don't get why
by ystad 6y ago
> The change will affect corporations that want to take our code and use it to create and sell proprietary tools that directly compete with us.
I don't get why folks who are scared of competitors start with a permissive license in the first place. They could have easily foreseen this. Think about competition who have invested time and PRs back to this.
- veridies 6y ago(Understandable) naïvité, and a lack of awareness of the downsides. Articles like this on Hacker News help other people who might be thinking of making a similar mistake.