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>Interesting that you went to profit immediately. Much of my use of OSS is personal and for fun and because I believe it makes the world a better place Akka’s
by braingenious 4y ago
>Interesting that you went to profit immediately. Much of my use of OSS is personal and for fun and because I believe it makes the world a better place
Akka’s new license only charges entities that are making $25 million dollars per year. I do not think this impacts hobbyist’s ability to play around with it, so yes, profit is a very obvious point to bring up. The only limitation is literally on organizations that are massively profiting off of it.
It’s also “interesting” that you didn’t address my questions aside from:
>I also know that forks are another waste of energy.
That is not knowledge that I share. I was under the impression that lots of good software has been built by forking other good software but maybe I’m wrong!
>Frankly, I don't use Akka and I'm definitely not going to now, so as far as I'm concerned, Akka is more than welcome to sign their own death warrant.
Why on earth are you so enthusiastic about this software then? Are you shelving your plans to build a $25 million per year business on top of this software? Is that what normally happens when you play around with OSS for fun?
As for their death warrants, I hope they sign some big fat checks instead of doing free work to impress random people that have a convenient quasi-religious morality of “money for me but not for thee”