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Agree, the amount of people who license things as MIT is terrifying. There has been a couple of posts/rants on HN about this. A large company doesn't care about
by R0b0t1 6y ago
Agree, the amount of people who license things as MIT is terrifying. There has been a couple of posts/rants on HN about this. A large company doesn't care about you, and licensing your code as MIT doesn't mean they're going to pay you. GPL actually gives you some teeth.
- sn_master 6y agoWe're in the era of big platforms that can pick and choose the winners, and the winners have to play with those rules. see: GPLv3 ban on Tivoization. It makes anything v3 radioactive to any company seeking to make $$$.
- R0b0t1 6y agoThe argument is that those people were never going to pay you money anyway so don't cater to them. All you can do is try to make it seem like it is cheaper to pay you for a license exception than it is to reimplement, but some places will reimplement anyway.
- sn_master 6y agoSaaS in big cloud is the way most people prefer to consume services. Few people enjoy setting and maintaining a large elastic cache cluster.
- babarock 6y agoIs it possible that people licensing things as MIT don't mind that a multi-billion company makes money off their work? I don't mean to make generalities about "open source", but a serious chunk of the community genuinely don't care.