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A comment on Insomnia's update locks out prev user data, forces account creation w/o warning. Parent comment

Re:Insomnia's update locks out prev user data, forces accoun... by SergeAx on Saturday September 30, 2023 @10:14AM (#37715634)
MIT license. If the product is success and has significant devs following - they will just fork it from the commit before relicensing.
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Re:Insomnia's update locks out prev user data, forces accoun... by helloanoop on Saturday September 30, 2023 @06:13PM (#37720428)
Yes MIT license is a great plan b. But forking is hard and painful. Elastic/MongoDB/HashiCorp and many more OSS keep moving towards Business Source License to protect themselves from bigtech monetizing the original creators hard work.

What we need is a better approach. One that doesn't involve VC funding. One that keeps the all the incentives of the community, contributors and the creators aligned.

Will share a draft of this approach soon (likely tomorrow) and open it up for community discussion. I want Bruno to be there for the long term.

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