The Commons Clause is an existential threat to open source

Re:The Commons Clause is an existential threat to open source by mindcrime on Wednesday August 22, 2018 @12:33PM (#17819912)

lack of open source license choices restrictive enough and clear enough and enabling openness so much that most businesses can't profit in any significant way from software under those licenses;

A license like that would, by definition, not be an Open Source license. Asking projects to switch to such a license is basically asking them to stop being Open Source.

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Re:The Commons Clause is an existential threat to open source by Bartweiss on Wednesday August 22, 2018 @12:59PM (#17820110)

I'm very confused by the number of people arguing that the problem with Open Source is the difficulty of controlling IP and restricting future use. It looks to me like a case of burning the house down today to be sure it won't crumble in the future.

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