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Re:Redis Adopts Dual Source-Available Licensing by eadmund on Thursday March 21, 2024 @10:54AM (#39779249)
Free software existed long before mass investment by VCs. The business arguments for open source existed long before the low-interest-rate period.

We are probably not going to see mass investment by VCs in free software for awhile (perhaps never, but that is pretty strong), but developers will keep scratching our itch.

And maybe more and more developers and users will realise that AGPL/GPL/LGP are the only licenses which truly protect one’s software.

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Re:Redis Adopts Dual Source-Available Licensing by stephenr on Thursday March 21, 2024 @01:07PM (#39781350)
> maybe more and more developers and users will realise that AGPL/GPL/LGP are the only licenses which truly protect one’s software.

I don't think this is a fair assessment of the cause of the issue with redis, or hashicorp, or elasticsearch etc;

This wasn't some nefarious third party taking all the community good will and contributions and creating a private fork to kill the original projects.

If you don't want some corporate asshole to turn your open source project into a get rich quick scheme, don't give control of your project to that asshole.

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