Re:We Are Changing the License for Akka
by JGailor on Wednesday September 07, 2022 @11:56AM
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> I highly suspect very few will ahve to tear it out. It'll cost more money to replace than it would to pay license fees for many companies. Developer time costs money.
That is the strategy companies are using to monetize these sort of projects. Give it away for free and then charge when a company has to make the choice of spending money to get rid of it and to replace it or to just pay for it. The lesson to take away is that any open source supported by a company will potentially become something that will have to be licensed commercially, so if anything will create an incentive to not use open source.
Re:We Are Changing the License for Akka
by the_af on Tuesday September 13, 2022 @01:14PM
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Indeed, and that's predatory behavior and it hurts the open source community because of the mistrust it sows.
Bad news. And people here are asking where's the bait and switch? Amazing.
Re:We Are Changing the License for Akka
by origin_path on Wednesday September 07, 2022 @03:08PM
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Technically they make a lot of revenue. The $25M threshold isn't a threshold on profitability, just company size. They could be losing money.
I highly suspect very few will ahve to tear it out. It'll cost more money to replace than it would to pay license fees for many companies. Developer time costs money.
> Because I don't see how anyone would want to use it, that pricing is completely ridiculous. No one should pay per vCPU, much less those extortionate amounts.
These are companies making lots of money. The license fee isn't that much when it comes to the amount the company is making.