> I just wish more devs had the courage to just stop capitulating to fear of a few different types. It's not fear: it's Apache-/MIT-/BSD-license-as-marketing.

> I just wish more devs had the courage to just stop capitulating to fear of a few different types. It's not fear: it's Apache-/MIT-/BSD-license-as-marketing. It' no longer enough to have a project that solves a specific problem - you now have to build "mindshare" and a "community" and have the metrics to show VC's so they can fund your growth, and corporate acceptability is key here. The playbook of a successful open source project is: 1. Use the most liberal license you can think & grow a community 2. Become popular, gain traction in enterprise market & get millions in funding 3. AWS forks your project, tells customers they can scale it better than you 4. Investors call you and demand you do something - competing with Amazon wrecks all their projections on your future revenue. You add anti-cloud-hosting clauses to your license - building a community is no longer a concern the way Amazon is. TerminusDB were on step 0 (no thanks to the GPL), now they are on step 1.