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by drewdevault 907 days ago
>Our funding did not motivate the license change. I can say this with clean conscience. I understand that I have biases here but I also do not want Open Source to turn into something that is exclusively for plumbing.

Here's the thing: you are no longer working in open source. If that's right for your product and your company, then so be it, I wish you success. FSL is an interesting development in this space. But, you opted out. You did give up on open source. Okay, fair enough, but to square your conscience I think you need to acknowledge that.

If you want to chat a bit more about the problems of open source and commercialization, share your insights from Sentry, and hear some thoughts from someone who might have done differently, feel free to send me an email, sir@cmpwn.com. Would be interested in talking about it with you further.

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> Here's the thing: you are no longer working in open source.

That’s just not true. I personally and Sentry too write open source software every day. Not every thing we create is FSL licensed.

But I will take you up on the offer.

Sorry, I'm aware of that nuance but I worded myself poorly.