All of these stories in the last few months about big tech companies "abusing" open source software is straight out of /r/leopardsatemyface. "I want to build an open source project with a license that lets anyone use it any way they want for free! No, don't use it like that!"

FOSS is a cargo cult to many naive developers. They build useful tools, give them out, and expect millions of payout will happen somehow.

It's straight out of the South Park underpants gnome school of business:

1) Write open source code

2) ???

3) Profit

faker.js - the MIT licensed free software - generates links to fakercloud.com. The error is in faker.js creating links to a paid-service CDN, not in how Retool is using the MIT licensed software.

https://github.com/Marak/faker.js/blob/c9764abd20a198e318367...

The MIT license has a legal disclaimer, so the responsibility is not on the author of the software.

Ok so we have a business model:

1. Have paid service.

2. Have free MIT software that violates the TOS of your own paid service.

3. Comes along a company, uses your MIT software as is.

4. Whine for money, because your TOS is violated.