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Where is this spirit when AWS takes a FOSS project, puts it in the cloud and monetizes it?
by y-curious 10mo ago
Where is this spirit when AWS takes a FOSS project, puts it in the cloud and monetizes it?
- Snild 10mo agoIt exists, hence e.g. AGPL. But for most open source licenses, that example would be within bounds. The grandparent comment objected to not respecting the license.
- fweimer 10mo agoThe AGPL does not prevent offering the software as a service. It's got a reputation as the GPL variant for an open-core business model, but it really isn't that. Most companies trying to sell open-source software probably lose more business if the software ends up in the Debian/Ubuntu repository (and the packaging/system integration is not completely abysmal) than when some cloud provider starts offering it as a service.
- oblio 10mo agoFairly sure it's the same problem and the main reason stronger licenses are appearing or formerly OSS companies closing down their sources.
- mrwrong 10mo agoyou are saying X, but a completely different group of people didn't say Y that other time! I got you!!!!
- y-curious 10mo agoIt’s fair to call out that both aspects are two sides of the same coin. I didn’t try to “get” anyone
- mrwrong 10mo agoum, no it's not. you have fallen into the classic web forum trap of analyzing a heterogenous mix of people with inconsistent views as one entity that should have consistent views