> "free in license only" Very interesting. Thanks. Are you familiar with Bryan Cantrill's "right to fork, but not the power" observation? It deeply influence

> "free in license only" Very interesting. Thanks. Are you familiar with Bryan Cantrill's "right to fork, but not the power" observation? It deeply influenced me. Alas, I didn't find his post-mortem until after I already joined an FOSS effort (kauli.org). Which failed. For so many reasons. Neutering us contributors probably being foremost. Copypasta: OpenSolaris challenges • That certain critical bits had to remain proprietary made forking the operating system technically difficult... • And that virtually all Solaris implementation knowledge lived within Sunʼs walls made it a practical impossibility • The community had the right to fork, but not the power • This led down the primrose path to open source governance: governing boards, elections, constitutions • And because all development on the system realistically required copyright assignment to Sun, OpenSolaris (sadly) remained a Sun puppet • Worse, some among Sunʼs middle management fancied themselves puppeteers... https://www.usenix.org/legacy/events/lisa11/tech/slides/cantrill.pdf https://www.usenix.org/legacy/events/lisa11/tech/slides/cant...