Re:Mozilla Awards Over Half a Million to Open Source Projects
by roblabla on Wednesday October 04, 2017 @06:43AM
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I'm not sure why people are so worked up over caddy. The http header "feature" got promptly removed, and the trademark infrigment claim is necessary for them to avoid dilluting their trademark. Furthermore, they politely told the fork maintainer about the infrigment, it's not like they sent a bunch of threatening lawyers...
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15237923
As to this year's MOSS recipients, Ushahidi received almost $200,000. They're a Kenya-based startup that was the darling of the Nairobi tech scene a few years ago but have increasingly come under criticism for their leadership during a recent sexual harassment scandal:
https://qz.com/1026890/kenyas-ushahidi-is-investigating-sexu...
Furthermore, one of their affiliated startups, who was making a "rugged" router powered by OpenWRT, was violating the GPL and was being quite dismissive and condescending to those of us who pointed out that they should be releasing the source code of their product. I covered this on my personal blog at the time:
https://mjanja.ch/2015/05/brck-in-violation-of-the-gpl/