Re:The Commons Clause is an existential threat to open source
by jessaustin on Wednesday August 22, 2018 @11:11AM
(#17819210)
I've seen this prediction on a regular basis since the mid-1990s. Usually the prediction hasn't included the qualifier "sometime after 2018". Would you like to add a qualifier to your statement?
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Re:The Commons Clause is an existential threat to open source
by lmm on Wednesday August 22, 2018 @11:40AM
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How healthy is open source these days? There may be any number of lines of library code publicly available, but I've felt that the four freedoms are less and less available in software that I'm the end user of.
Re:The Commons Clause is an existential threat to open source
by kmmbvnr_ on Wednesday August 22, 2018 @12:14PM
(#17819768)
This is already happens with rethinkdb.
Even after community "acquisition" the development process mostly dead https://github.com/rethinkdb/rethinkdb/graphs/commit-activit...
Re:The Commons Clause is an existential threat to open source
by jessaustin on Wednesday August 22, 2018 @02:42PM
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This thread is about the health of open source in general. A specific project slowing down doesn't tell us anything about that. Especially since the project you're talking about was created by a business and abandoned by that business when the business situation changed. It seems perverse to infer anything about open source from that.