> I’m sure our perspective will shift over time, but from where we’re standing, having a cloud provider launch a competing service would be a sign of enormous s

> I’m sure our perspective will shift over time, but from where we’re standing, having a cloud provider launch a competing service would be a sign of enormous success. (And this is not to say that the cloud providers’ parasitic approach to OSS projects is not a genuine problem, it simply acknowledges that you have to be a widely used OSS project before it becomes* a problem).* Interesting. This seems to be the licensing equivalent of "Piracy is Progressive Taxation", which is an angle on software licensing I hadn't considered before (and it should have, since these are copyright licenses, and similar popularity-based dynamics regarding violation of norms ought not to be surprising): https://www.oreilly.com/content/piracy-is-progressive-taxation-and-other-thoughts-on-the-evolution-of-online-distribution/ https://www.oreilly.com/content/piracy-is-progressive-taxati...