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by orangeshark 2639 days ago
Thinking more about the issues, it really seems this only affects a subset of software, specifically server software. A SaaS company won't be able to turn and sell some desktop software as a service. We sort of seen this in the past with hosting companies selling services with apache, php, and various other software together, but I guess the maintainers of these projects were not competiting in this area so it never mattered.

I also find it odd that one of the reasons to use the term open source was because of the ambiguity with the meaning of free. Even with this reason, the majority of open source software is free/gratis.

I agree with the problem we are facing now, we are just not educating many developers on free and open source software. It is probably something we need to improve on.