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I think you're both right? I have come around to the idea that it's good to firmly discourage this kind of late-in-the-game license change. But I also think t
by sanderjd 3y ago
I think you're both right?
I have come around to the idea that it's good to firmly discourage this kind of late-in-the-game license change.
But I also think that, on net, this episode will lead to fewer businesses choosing the open source model for their software, from the start. It just seems like playing business on hard mode to try to build an open source or source available product, when you can just build a SaaS and charge for it. I think this is really bad (I have a strong preference to not be stuck with opaque SaaSes for most things), and I'm not sure what incentive there is to try to find new business models, when you risk becoming public enemy number one amongst a big chunk of your potential customer base.