Corporate Open Source is Dead

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hNcBk6cwim8

Nobody likes being rugpulled. But lately, it's going around like a virus.

The state of open source landscape is changing. Many projects backed by corporations are changing to "source avaliable" or other such scam license.

It's one thing to be commercial & closed source from the beginning and be honest about it - that's OK. But changing from open source to "source available" is a rug pull.

At least forking is possible - fork the project at a point where it was still opensource and diverge from there. That is why so many forks in OSS are happening lately.

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But it is also hypocritical to expect devs to work for free, why would anyone work hard and not get paid?

Especially when a profitable corporation uses your free software to make money.