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Re:WiX Toolset: Introduce the Open Source Maintenance Fee by liotier on Thursday July 24, 2025 @11:55AM (#44672253)
If it solves your problem, why would you care about what other people do with it ? Free software isn't charity, just a way to find allies - usage by other people is a side effect which doesn't cost anything to the project and is entirely irrelevant apart as some input for the user-to-ally pipeline.
Re:WiX Toolset: Introduce the Open Source Maintenance Fee by evanelias on Thursday July 24, 2025 @01:34PM (#44673574)
Have you ever spent a huge amount of unpaid time to create an innovative, successful open source project and then had it forked in this manner? If not, I don't think you can accurately predict how this feels. Especially if the forker takes credit for your work, raises large amounts of venture capital, and uses their fork in a way which directly competes with your original project.