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So how should the maintainers eat? Or there should be none? Should they be Amazon employees?
by matt-p 1y ago
So how should the maintainers eat? Or there should be none? Should they be Amazon employees?
- growse 1y agoPersonally, as an un-paid OSS maintainer, I chose to go get a job. Other's might choose different paths.
- geodel 1y agoThey can create business with closed source software. No one demanded of them to create Apache License software.
- motorest 1y ago> So how should the maintainers eat? If a corporation wants to build a business model around FLOSS, it's their responsibility to figure out how to do that. What they cannot do is abuse FLOSS licenses to pull bait-and-switch on their userbase to coerce them to meet their revenue targets.
- zwaps 1y agoThey did figure it out. Contributors signed CLA and so their license change was absolutely legal and in line with what everyone agreed upon. When you started using the product, you should have known this. See what I did there?