[Spivak]

This has got to be the hacker version of watching a band you love sell out.

It's crazy where we're calling "I made this thing that was useful for me and I'm giving it away so that it might be useful to others" corporate welfare like they're the ones betraying the spirit of OSS. But the companies that release OSS as a growth hack for their VC funded startups and are happy to take it away when it benefits them, those guys are the real spirit of OSS.

There has never been a time that selling OSS has ever worked and it seems like business are wising up to the fact that there's no first party advantage in OSS. If your plan is make some software and charge for <something else> you better be damn good at the something else. RedHat made it work with a truly ungodly amount of effort on support, documentation, compliance, and security channels.