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by nexuist 2076 days ago
How is this corporate speak? If an indie dev said his/her project is going to be open source initially and then newer features would get monetized, would your first thought be that this dev is "breaking into the space under the guise of open source altruism"?
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a1369209993 2076 days ago
If they started out by misleadingly[0] describing it as "$THING is free and open source."? Yes!

Edit: 0: It's (presumably) technically not false now, but the implication is that $THING is honestly intended to be FOSS, immediately followed by admiting that their actual intent is to sabotage that embrace-extend-extinguish-style as soon as it's commercially expedient to do so.

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save_ferris 2076 days ago
> their actual intent is to sabotage that as soon as it’s commercially expedient to do so.

Sabotage??? Wow, that’s quite an accusation for a company that’s, you know, a company. You might have an argument if they kept quiet about plans to monetize the product later, but that allegation is laughable.

If you’re not comfortable with the terms, don’t use the product. They’re being upfront about their plans. This anti-commercial position is hypocritical.

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