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The problem is, there will be almost zero packages that (very few) "corporations want so bad". The only exception might be cloud providers, that want to host yo
by krick 3y ago
The problem is, there will be almost zero packages that (very few) "corporations want so bad". The only exception might be cloud providers, that want to host your mildly-popular open-source message queue, but, again, if you are Amazon, you'll soon just re-implement that message queue, drop the "original" one, and after a couple of years your mildly-popular project will become not popular at all.
- matheusmoreira 3y agoIn that case we'll simply end up exactly where we started. There's a twist though. This time around we're not being taken for fools and exploited. Better to have a completely irrelevant forgotten project than a massively popular one that makes us zero dollars while CEOs make billions off of it. This post always comes to mind every time this topic comes up: https://web.archive.org/web/20120620103603/http://zedshaw.com/essays/why_i_gpl.html https://web.archive.org/web/20120620103603/http://zedshaw.co... > I want people to appreciate the work I’ve done and the value of what I’ve made. > Not pass on by waving “sucker” as they drive their fancy cars.
- nicce 3y agoThat is a really good post from 15? years ago, and still very relevant to this day.
- matheusmoreira 3y agoYeah, I've never forgotten it. He hasn't stopped blogging either. https://zedshaw.com/blog/2022-02-05-the-beggar-barons/ https://zedshaw.com/blog/2022-02-05-the-beggar-barons/ https://zedshaw.com/blog/2018-03-25-the-billionaires-vs-brandonm/ https://zedshaw.com/blog/2018-03-25-the-billionaires-vs-bran... That last link is about this place and covers some abuse he got here on HN over that GPL article. All the way back from 2009.