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> They are called fake open source companies, betrayers of the spirit. > As the product matures, the open source strategy often becomes less valuable to them, and many, if not all, will license away from open source to a more restrictive license. "I released my product as OSS as a growth hack because no one would touch it if it wasn't OSS and I wanted to feed off the community good-will that comes with people contributing back and building an ecosystem around what they believe will is a community project. But I don't actually share in any of those silly values the OSS community has. Unrelated, why are you all mad at me?" > Let it sink in: Without VCs, there would be no Terraform, and without Terraform, there would be no OpenTofu. Without VCs, there would be no ElasticSearch, and without ElasticSearch, there would be no OpenSearch. The direct way from idea to OpenTofu or OpenSearch did not happen; it needed a VC-funded startup to blaze the trail. Either this guy is high off his ass and I want some, or has reached the astral plane of scamming VCs. Yes pour money into this cool new software I promise it will be profitable one day. Ignore the poison pill that enables-- nay encourages, the community to just take it for themselves when the time comes. |
Really just work, 9 to 5, and rather mediocre cafeteria food.