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by sneak
1038 days ago
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SaaS is not software; SaaS is a service. The spirit of free software is giving software away as a gift and a tool for people to use to do whatever they like with it, business included. Running a service based on free software is absolutely within the spirit of free software. Free software isn't about a circle of gifts, it's about software freedoms. You're not obligated in spirit to "give something back" because you use free software. |
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Yes it's ok to use OSS to operate your business. That's a sound and intended way of using OSS. Everyone benefits.
No it's not ok to provide a competing product to the very people that you get the core of it from. That's literally stealing if not fraud. At least it is ethically dubious.
I'm not saying it's literally a yes/no decision, but this is the baseline.
I think OSS projects should offer a paid for "integration license" by default.