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No, nonfree licenses are bad. Nobody has any issue with people making money with free software. We have issue with people not respecting software freedoms. Y
by sneak 1y ago
No, nonfree licenses are bad. Nobody has any issue with people making money with free software.
We have issue with people not respecting software freedoms.
You seem to be intentionally conflating the two things.
Why make source available at all if you are just going to release proprietary software? It’s open source cosplay at that point. Just make commercial proprietary software like a normal software company; don’t pretend you are open source just because your source code is readable on GitHub.
- aloha2436 1y ago> Why make source available at all if you are just going to release proprietary software? Because there's years between one decision and the other, and in that time it turned out that because the software was open source they were structurally disadvantaged versus large cloud providers in being able to make money from it. It seems disingenuous to suggest that the open sourcing was in bad faith given it happened years and paradigms apart from the closed sourcing, even though I don't agree with the decision either.
- growse 1y ago> It seems disingenuous to suggest that the open sourcing was in bad faith given it happened years and paradigms apart from the closed sourcing, even though I don't agree with the decision either. The problem here is that their actions are indistinguishable from an entity that is acting in bad faith. "Get loads of free labour, then claim ownership of it and try to monetize" is a business strategy.