Re:AWS forked my project and launched it as its own service
by brainless on Friday October 16, 2020 @02:57PM
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You are either the one who was in the open source movement, in which case I will hold my silence. Else I will say you do not know that open source was started when on-premise was a thing. How do you know how open source would have started now in the era of cloud?
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Re:AWS forked my project and launched it as its own service
by kortilla on Friday October 16, 2020 @04:50PM
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I have worked on lots of open source software with the full intent of just putting the code out there to allow others to use as they see fit. Even if one person uses it to save them or their business time, it’s achieved its goal.
If other people contribute back, great. If I get credit, great. But those are not the motivations when you put up something like a BSD license. Licenses mean things so you need to choose a restrictive license if you get your feelings hurt when people use your software in a way you don’t like.