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Suck up money from an open source project? Others making money from an open source project is kinda the point of open source. Also the people whose accounts ar
by slyall 2y ago
Suck up money from an open source project? Others making money from an open source project is kinda the point of open source. Also the people whose accounts are being deactivated have by definition contributed to the project in the past. It's not just one guy who created it all.
This is a wordpress fork that will cost people to run and assuming WPEngine is supporting it it'll cost them money to support.
- echoangle 2y ago> Others making money from an open source project is kinda the point of open source. It’s always interesting when people become personally offended when someone dares to make money off of the project they personally open sourced before. Why would you license your stuff with a license that explicitly allows that if you’re salty about the consequences later? Maybe chose a license you actually stand behind and can live with.
- satvikpendem 2y agoBut how else will you be able to use other people's contributions for free and market yourself as open source otherwise?? That's really the crux of this OSS pushback, people want all the benefits of being open source, like free labor and marketing, without wanting the ostensible cons.