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It's really weird to me how "exploitation" and "SaaSification" are brought up in defense of companies choosing licenses that exploit their communities so their
by tedivm 3y ago
It's really weird to me how "exploitation" and "SaaSification" are brought up in defense of companies choosing licenses that exploit their communities so their own SaaS can have a monopoly for that project.
- pessimizer 3y agoAnd thinking they have a claim on the "spirit of open source." They're literally trying to shut down the competition so that their customers don't have better options, or failing that, demanding a regular tribute payment from their competitors if they continue to operate. I can't figure out the difference there between the "spirit of open source" and the "spirit of Microsoft."
- pydry 3y agoIt's really weird to me to see people rail against companies releasing what is essentially open source and then reserving the right to charge for hosting it. It was even weirder to see hordes of people rally behind Amazon's moral crusade against it. It's all rather reminiscent of Google's anti AGPL tantrum (e.g. like when they banned it from their code hosting platform).