As belts tighten, corporate #opensource evolves—further and further from the ideals of Free Software.
Partly due to bad actions by "freeloaders," but also companies putting too much value in building code, and not enough on community and support. https://www.hashicorp.com/blog/hashicorp-adopts-business-source-license
nostr:npub18hdtxw4fy7wyksk5ryskdksq2w9d2fqwd5htkkazeazeh26fmz0srkkf64 Seems less of "not placing value on the community" as much as the code (or their exclusive hosting of it) is what's making them money. Companies who only sell support don't make a lot of money, except for Red Hat, and evidently it wasn't enough for them either.
Related question: does the MPL still apply to older versions of the software and source code with which it was bundled, or does this somehow retroactively affect the old code?
I'm sure nostr:npub1ftg6hpnj4ees7m8mrzc6esffxs6p8r49z78ssg74kc4zzg39sfgsxj73wz is could fill out a book now with examples of companies who are using parts of his "Corporate Open Source Anti-Patterns" presentation for a template...
Requiring copyright assignment, using anti-competitive licenses instead of open source...
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I'm not surprised...hashicorp has always struck me as shady
