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Recently a number of dotnet projects have gone commercial. It feels like a rug pull. I guess it is damaging for other open source dot net libraries because deve
by pipes 1y ago
Recently a number of dotnet projects have gone commercial. It feels like a rug pull. I guess it is damaging for other open source dot net libraries because developers are less likely to adopt them, ie it becomes harder to get traction.
- debugnik 1y agoIn the particular case of .NET, that's not a recent thing. .NET businesses have always been adjacent to freeware/open-core.
- pipes 1y agoI can't remember any libraries that started completely open source and free then suddenly becoming pay only. Though to be fair for some reason early in my career I didn't pay much attention to 3rd party libraries. Maybe because nuget hadn't been invented yet! :)