> This is a historically narrow view of the situation. > We aren't paying people to 'steal' your code. We're paying people to act like professionals. I think

> This is a historically narrow view of the situation. > We aren't paying people to 'steal' your code. We're paying people to act like professionals. I think you have a narrow view of the situation, or you are trying to misrepresent the reality we are living in. We are signing up for OSS-derived SaaS mostly because of the existence of cloud-computing network effects. There have been many fights fought by companies 'acting like professionals' that could accept payment. They are re-licensing their software because developers and companies are utilizing a forked cloud-vendor-specific clones of their work. Forking software to provide it to a captive audience doesn't seem professional, it seems anti-competitive. That said, most popular licenses allow it, so it is legal, but I don't think it is ethical.