I would prefer that companies stop abusing their communities by leveraging them and then discarding them when they have enough power to do so. OSS was never ab

I would prefer that companies stop abusing their communities by leveraging them and then discarding them when they have enough power to do so. OSS was never about source availability - that’s just a form of cheap escrow and has fairly limited value. Open source is about user freedom to do whatever they want with the software - guaranteed freedoms. This isn’t about “purity”, it’s about using a label on the tin that says “FREEDOM INSIDE” and then peeling the label off and telling a subset of users to pay up or give away any software code you’ve ever used to touch my software. We used to call that a “bait and switch” to be polite , though really it’s more like a shakedown.