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by ezekg 2y ago
Did you read the post? Open Source isn't Automattic's business model -- it's their distribution model.
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by ezekg 2y ago
I said it somewhere else, but this FAQ is likely because most people think "source available on GitHub" = "open source", so they're just answering the low-hanging-fruit even if the question is technically incorrect.
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Open Source is not a Business Model(cra.mr)
4 points by ezekg 2y ago|5 comments
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by ezekg 2y ago
Likely because most people think "source available on GitHub" = "open source", so they're just answering the low-hanging-fruit even if the question is technically incorrect. They don't claim to be open source a
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by ezekg 2y ago
They seem to have fixed it.
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by ezekg 2y ago
Archive: https://web.archive.org/web/20190604173131/https://www.cockr...
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by ezekg 2y ago
> Dancing around the "so it's not open source" by not clearly saying "correct, it's no longer open source". CockroachDB hasn't been open source for over 5 years: https://web.archive.org/
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by ezekg 2y ago
Sure, but I'm not sure why they wouldn't just use a signed license file with a start- and stop-date in this case. Lots of companies, especially enterprises, run air-gaps and telemetry just won't work there. And they should kn
489.
by ezekg 2y ago
I don't like the fact that even free users need an annual license key.
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by ezekg 2y ago
I posted it on Twitter, but I feel like revenue-based licensing models unnecessarily push the compliance burden onto the user. It's an honor system, and even they admit it [0]; even Unity, who also uses a revenue-based model, admits it
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by ezekg 2y ago
I think you submitted the wrong link: https://www.happybase.co/blog/what-i-learned-from-dogfooding...
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by ezekg 2y ago
Nonsense. The tens of thousands of people who self-host and contribute to Fair Source software would say otherwise. The world isn't so black and white.
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by ezekg 2y ago
I started with SaaS and only recently after over 8 years moved to offering self-hosting as well. I tried code escrow for awhile, but that was hard and required a lot of hands-on support because at the time the app wasn't built with sel
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by ezekg 2y ago
Is source-available more open than closed source? Yes. Is fair source more open than source-available? Yes. Is open source more open than fair source? Yes. I don't see any attempt at communicating otherwise. Nobody is claiming fair sou
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by ezekg 2y ago
> When it's presented as an alternative to being properly open source - as it is here - then it absolutely is open-washing. No, it's being presented as an alternative to being properly closed source.
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by ezekg 2y ago
That's like arguing that source-available is openwashing and that doesn't make any sense.
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by ezekg 2y ago
I don't really follow how fair source is openwashing.
498.
by ezekg 2y ago
Love the zero, but agreed.
499.
by ezekg 2y ago
So am I via self-hosting. The license's non-compete isn't specific to SaaS like e.g. the ELv2 is. Why wouldn't it work?
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by ezekg 2y ago
I would argue that fair core is, in a lot of cases (not all ofc), superior in the long run to open core, because under fair core, the entire code base eventually becomes open source, unlike open core where commercial features remain proprie
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by ezekg 2y ago
There's the Fair Core License [0] for projects that monetize self-hosting with commercial features e.g. an "open core"-style project. Is that what you're thinking? Or what's the difference between B2B and B2C in you
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by ezekg 2y ago
Prior musings on the topic from the author: - https://pepicrft.me/blog/2024/08/02/commercial-oss - https://pepicrft.me/blog/2024/07/22/openness-as-a-tool-of-tr... -
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Fair Source: Sustainability with no customer risk(pepicrft.me)
30 points by ezekg 2y ago|66 comments
504.
by ezekg 2y ago
Pay for their $250/mo business tier or w/e it's called and they respond pretty quick.
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by ezekg 2y ago
I was also reading Design Patterns in Ruby during that time, and it's been over 8 years since that happened so it's all a bit fuzzy. I remember being completely new to Rails and spinning up a licensing server for a project, which
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by ezekg 2y ago
It's how I went from 0-100, and I ended up building my company on it while learning both Ruby and Rails.
507.
by ezekg 2y ago
I'd recommend a https://gorails.com subscription and just start building something. You'll get up to speed in no time.
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Keygen relicenses from the ELv2 to the Fair Core License(keygen.sh)
2 points by ezekg 2y ago|0 comments
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by ezekg 2y ago
> I have a suggestion, not that I expect it to matter: first, drop the [adjective] source pattern completely. You don't need a category of software licenses, you need a software license — and you really, truly, do not need the heada
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by ezekg 2y ago
Fair Source is more than just the FSL. There's also the FCL, and the BUSL, with room for more licenses exploring other ways to monetize.

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