Re:I've been designing a language since 2009 – friends and I...
by dangus on Sunday August 14, 2022 @02:35PM
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> you can learn for free which lets face it, is the only thing people would want to do in its present state
Deciding to learn something in the first place is a question of how I want to use my limited time. I don't think I want to learn something with a presently-bad EULA that might change arbitrarily in the future.
It's totally fine that your team wants to keep this project close to you, it is your work and copyright privileges after all. You don't have to be open source if you don't want to. [1] Don't let anyone tell you what to do with your own work.
Just don't be surprised when you find that nobody's interested in it.
[1] I do think it's a bit hypocritical to require people to be "a part of the community" to download the thing when the license doesn't resemble a community or copyleft license. This is no different than downloading from the Oracle Download Center.
Deciding to learn something in the first place is a question of how I want to use my limited time. I don't think I want to learn something with a presently-bad EULA that might change arbitrarily in the future.
It's totally fine that your team wants to keep this project close to you, it is your work and copyright privileges after all. You don't have to be open source if you don't want to. [1] Don't let anyone tell you what to do with your own work.
Just don't be surprised when you find that nobody's interested in it.
[1] I do think it's a bit hypocritical to require people to be "a part of the community" to download the thing when the license doesn't resemble a community or copyleft license. This is no different than downloading from the Oracle Download Center.