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Can you give insight into this strategy? It seems... limiting. For startups, at least.

• Yoric 15y ago
  Well, the general idea is to ensure that whoever is using Opa somehow contributes to the FOSS community, either by contributing source code or by funding the development of Opa itself.
• omouse 15y ago
  How is that limiting for startups? Most startups are built on execution and network-effects and I don't see how the license is a hindrance to that.
  • nandemo 15y ago
    Really? Source-code is not part of the execution?
    • derrida 15y ago
      A vast majority of start-ups, talented developers see afterwards and go "Oh, I could have coded that", but perhaps not built the business or had the drive to go after the users. They can see the site and imagine how they would reverse engineer it. The value is in the user-base and execution of the business. Only a few start-ups rely on what might be a non-trivial new technology that was invented in house, for which closed source is necessary.