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I think we're going through a recession in Free/Open Source ecosystem. Hardware and Software companies all alike trying to protect their "investments" by making

I think we're going through a recession in Free/Open Source ecosystem. Hardware and Software companies all alike trying to protect their "investments" by making things harder for other parties. Eagle, Spark Fun, Arduino, Prusa, Red Hat, SourceGraph, VSCode Plugins (was it OmniSharp), etc, etc... MIT & BSD licenses are used as a weapon against GPL more and more... Rust's "Rewrite In Rust" movement is used to replace GPL tools with MIT versions which can be closed on a whim... "{VSCode,Chrom}ium" projects give the illusion open source while being effectively used to harvest community effort, too. I don't think we're on a good track. Disturbing times.

theragra 3y ago
Very weird take on MIT/BSD. They cannot be closed. You can always fork.
- bayindirh 3y ago
  > You can always fork. If and only if publisher shares the source. Permissive licenses are not “viral”. Sharing the source is not mandatory. I can take your work, evolve/improve, publish a tool, and tell that the tool contains some code of you, if I don’t forget. You can fork this version as much as you like. If you can find the source, of course.