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Re:Etcd, or, why modern software makes me sad by js8 on Tuesday July 14, 2020 @04:28PM (#23837395)
> It's almost like there's no good representation in the open-source world for the solo developer or small team.

IMHO, there is a simple solution to this - release the software under the GPL license. Then no corporation will want to touch it.

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Re:Etcd, or, why modern software makes me sad by Jeff_Brown on Tuesday July 14, 2020 @06:17PM (#23838710)
If your project is sufficiently popular, that's safe; otherwise maybe not.

As someone else mentioned, when a giant corp absorbs a free project, you can reasonably expect them to maintain it. If you GPL the project, that won't happen. But if it's a popular project, then if it's GPL it will attract more maintenance from people who can't free-ride on the corp's efforts.

(Note that the relevant measure of "popular" is not number of users, but number of people enthusiastic enough to actually contribute.)

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Re:Etcd, or, why modern software makes me sad by GoblinSlayer on Wednesday July 15, 2020 @05:47AM (#23843080)
Only if it's proper GPL3. Google and Microsoft touch linux everywhere: https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/lin...
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Re:Etcd, or, why modern software makes me sad by linuxftw on Tuesday July 14, 2020 @05:47PM (#23838375)
AGPL would be more apropos in this day and age of "SaaS all the things."
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Re:Etcd, or, why modern software makes me sad by amiga-workbench on Tuesday July 14, 2020 @07:47PM (#23839529)
https://opensource.google/docs/using/agpl-policy/ They're absolutely allergic to it.
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