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In this case it's kind of unbelievable how quickly the flip happened. Their 'manifesto'[0] was published only at the start of the year, where they vowed to be a
by rozab 1y ago
In this case it's kind of unbelievable how quickly the flip happened. Their 'manifesto'[0] was published only at the start of the year, where they vowed to be an incorruptible bastion of stability in a selfish society focused on short-term thinking. They want Bear to be around in 50 years.
Then in the last couple weeks or so[1] it seems they saw a bit of a spike, and immediately pulled up the ladder.
They even criticised this sort of behaviour in their manifesto:
>We've seen our fair share of open-source projects become sour (see the recent Wordpress drama) or abandoned entirely. We've seen OpenAI become ClosedAI. There's a common thread here. Trust isn't just a legal structure, but a social contract.
I am actually totally in favor of source available licenses, but in this case it seems counter to all the boasts the developer has made about their platform.[2]
[0]: https://herman.bearblog.dev/manifesto/ https://herman.bearblog.dev/manifesto/
[1]: https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?date=today%205-y&q=bear%20blog&hl=en https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?date=today%205-y&q=...
[2]: https://herman.bearblog.dev/building-software-to-last-forever/ https://herman.bearblog.dev/building-software-to-last-foreve...
- moralestapia 1y agoI guess Herman cried to his friends for help now. Pathetic. Your evidence is solid, after all, it was the same guy who wrote that just a few months ago. That post might be gone soon, "smaht" people are inclined to rewrite history to fit their current mood.
- riffraff 1y agoironically, Wordpress is still licensed under the GPL even after the kerfuffle.