Re:HashiCorp Adopts Business Source License
by pessimizer on Thursday August 10, 2023 @06:08PM
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> it's also a sign that you fear your offering is not competitive enough without the rule change.
Agreed. It can't mean anything other than that you can't compete on a fair playing field, so you have to add restrictions to lock customers into your service. That you wrote the service is irrelevant since you licensed it as a gift to the world. It's exactly what Free Software was designed to thwart, and exactly what open source was designed to preserve.
Agreed. It can't mean anything other than that you can't compete on a fair playing field, so you have to add restrictions to lock customers into your service. That you wrote the service is irrelevant since you licensed it as a gift to the world. It's exactly what Free Software was designed to thwart, and exactly what open source was designed to preserve.