#fauxpensource — Public Fediverse posts
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"Lately, though, there's been a very disturbing trend. A company will make its program using #OpenSource, make millions from it, and then switch licenses, leaving contributors, customers, and partners in the lurch as they grab billions."
- Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols
@sjvn via ComputerWorld.This is why you should only adopt #OSS owned and governed by non-profit foundations.
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In fact, if you think hard about their actual terms, you'll figure out that the only people who can still use Hashi projects for free are home users working on hobbies, provided that those hobbies generate no income at all.
That's not open source. That's Shareware!
Yes, welcome to the return of Shareware.