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I think it is great Sentry folks do not pretend it is Open Source. It is great to see innovation and we will see if it becomes popular. What I see is a lot of

I think it is great Sentry folks do not pretend it is Open Source. It is great to see innovation and we will see if it becomes popular. What I see is a lot of "single vendor" projects which carry most of development burden want their business protected while having, often minimal, contributions from community. The "Real Open Source" though is multi-vendor - think PostgreSQL, Linux, Kubernetes among others, in which case many parties share the burden of development and maintenance but also have even playing field monetizing product.

whit537 2y ago
I referenced Dirk's original "single-vendor" paper in the FAQ, "Why should I adopt Fair Source at my company?" fair.io/faq I engaged heavily with a lot of Dirk's work in my historical deep-dive: https://openpath.chadwhitacre.com/2024/the-historical-case-for-fair-source/ https://openpath.chadwhitacre.com/2024/the-historical-case-f... > Dirk asked in 2021, “What’s next after ‘source-available’?” Our answer is Fair Source. I’ve made the case that it is a good way to resolve tensions that have been present in Open Source since the beginning. The net effect can be more closed-source code released to the world, and less pressure to change the Open Source Definition one way or another. > we will see if it becomes popular Agreed, time will tell. A major test is whether we ever see a viable fork under DOSP, seems likely years away if ever.