Re:We Are Changing the License for Akka
by yjftsjthsd-h on Wednesday September 07, 2022 @12:27PM
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> Clearly, you chose Akka because it was valuable enough to allow you to bring your company to that scale.
If that selection was made when it was being given away for free, it's rather hard to make the determination.
> If half of your company is based around gluing together a bunch of things that can only run because of Akka, it is fair that you pay half of your revenue to the people who actually make your company work.
And half to Linux, and half to GNU, and half to Apple, and half to your compiler of choice? There are a lot of critical pieces of infrastructure; I'm not really sure that this line of reasoning holds up very well. Unless of course, you think this one library is so magical that it deserves more money than all the other critical components.
If that selection was made when it was being given away for free, it's rather hard to make the determination.
> If half of your company is based around gluing together a bunch of things that can only run because of Akka, it is fair that you pay half of your revenue to the people who actually make your company work.
And half to Linux, and half to GNU, and half to Apple, and half to your compiler of choice? There are a lot of critical pieces of infrastructure; I'm not really sure that this line of reasoning holds up very well. Unless of course, you think this one library is so magical that it deserves more money than all the other critical components.