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AWS etc. already offer these services so the risk is low. I dislike the recent trend of companies changing licenses from a formerly FLOSS solution to "source av

AWS etc. already offer these services so the risk is low. I dislike the recent trend of companies changing licenses from a formerly FLOSS solution to "source available". It prevents little in practice and makes it so that your original differentiator i.e. open source is no longer true.

mooreds 6y ago
> AWS etc. already offer these services so the risk is low. I'm not sure about that. AWS had a NoSQL database, but replicated mongodb. Anyway, I think that the risk doesn't occur until and unless supertokens hits a home run. I mean, if you're big enough for a hypercloud provider to copy, that means you've been pretty darn successful in distribution of your product. But the risk is there. As for the relicensing, I have sympathy for both viewpoints. I posted this in a different comment, but this medium article does a good job of talking about both sides of the issue: https://joemorrison.medium.com/death-of-an-open-source-business-model-62bc227a7e9b https://joemorrison.medium.com/death-of-an-open-source-busin...