[stevenacreman]

People are upvoting the title because I guess they agree to some extent.

It seems everyone starting an open source project nowadays needs to protect against the cloud providers.

The topic on here about the new CI tool from the creator of Ansible also had an element of this. But I actually quite liked his solution. He gives everything away for free and the source is open. You just cannot profit from his work unless you join a partner system.

Maybe I'm being naive but that seemed like it may work. Although not sure how you qualify not being used for commercial benefit if the software you're building with the CI tool produces a paid product. I think the software creator would only really enforce the license if you started a business up doing hosted CI with it or offering it as a cloud service.

[icebraining]

The question is not whether it works or not. This new alternative to open source may be great, we're just asking people to clearly distinguish their new model as such.