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What do you suspect could go wrong? Not attacking, just curious.
by thequadehunter 4y ago
What do you suspect could go wrong? Not attacking, just curious.
- capableweb 4y agoPersonally I try to stay away from FOSS projects who raise VC funding, it signals to me they are using FOSS as a way to do marketing, not developing a community-based project. Plenty of FOSS who tried to make it in a for-profit, VC funded world eventually disappears when VCs can't extract any money back and they never become profitable, and then the creators/maintainers lose interest as there is no longer any money to be made. Lastly, I generally don't work for for-profit companies for free. If they are non-profit, then it'd be fine. But you make money from my work? Hm, call me a socialist, but at least I should get a part of the profits then.
- anonzzzies 4y agoBut that is where OSS licenses come in. If it’s not something like agpl or some self invented thing, then you can just make a fork right? You are only helping the community in that case. I agree with you by the way, but for MIT or Apache licenses, I think even if the company goes full commercial or terminates at some point, they gave us enough in the first place to warrant some trust and help. For the ‘we are open but clearly using that fact for marketing’ licenses, I indeed refuse to use that software and definitely cannot contribute to it (but no one will anyway that doesn’t work there) as you cannot make a meaningful fork anyway in case it goes bad.