It's too long and I'm too tired to copy-paste it all here, but it's high time I finally comment on the ridiculousness of Coinkite/COLDCARD trying to pretend they are still open-source and playing word games to convince people of their abandoned ethos.
Being *actually* open-source matters for many reasons.
https://twitter.com/sethforprivacy/status/1651039483419058177
Nitter link (privacy-preserving frontend for Twitter): https://twitter.com/sethforprivacy/status/1651039483419058177
If the choices are to remain open source and have a VC backed company come in and profit on your hard work to your detriment, or change the license, I'd choose change the license.
They made a business decision that you don't like.
Foundation made a business decision Coinkite didn't like.
nostr:npub1az9xj85cmxv8e9j9y80lvqp97crsqdu2fpu3srwthd99qfu9qsgstam8y8 is quite opinionated, but that's ok.
So are you.
They made a business decision purely out of fear and reliant on the state. Weak sauce.
And you would be free to do that, but if you do that you have to stop riding the coattails of the FOSS movement and be clear that you're merely source-available and don't share the FOSS ethos.
That's fine.
I don't think I'm convinced that they are riding the FOSS coattails. They were open source, it made sense until they realized it didn't.
It still makes sense to publish the source code for security validation, but not working for free to help VCs profit more than themselves.
I'm not worked up about it like you are I guess.
nostr:npub1az9xj85cmxv8e9j9y80lvqp97crsqdu2fpu3srwthd99qfu9qsgstam8y8is upset and it shows, but I don't blame him. I also think his stance on raspberry pis is a bad take.
Nobody's perfect, and nobody has the same values as you.
