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Just because you are legally allowed to do so doesn’t mean that you should. Hopefully you have a similar stance towards Amazon’s behavior in the OSS community.
by mirthflat83 5y ago
Just because you are legally allowed to do so doesn’t mean that you should. Hopefully you have a similar stance towards Amazon’s behavior in the OSS community.
- totalZero 5y agoIf that's the case then it's no longer FOSS.
- zenethian 5y agoIt's not an issue of legally allowed. It's the very spirit of the community that allows for this. The FOSS community has worked very hard to create a system where permission isn't needed because it's already there, baked into the system. So while yes, some large corporations abuse this, I also don't consider Amazon to be part of the FOSS community, and I definitely consider NixOS to be a part of the FOSS community. To declare that you will go so far as changing the license to prohibit certain persons or projects from using your software is an affront to the FOSS community itself. If the whole FOSS community degraded into "It's free for everyone except you and you and you because I don't like you or maybe you're gonna make my life difficult" then we would have no FOSS at all. I can understand the author's concern, and NixOS offered to maintain it's own fork to mitigate it, and the author rejected the idea. That tells me that it was more of a temper-tantrum stemming from some other deeper issue than just a concern about support.
- reinaldons 5y agoExcept the part you are including a company to "prove" your point when NixOS is a FOSS project and they give their part back to the community.