Bear is now source-available

> Unfortunately over the years there have been cases of people forking the project in the attempt to set up a competing service. And it hurts.

I am literally incapable of sympathising with this situation. Seriously, what did you expect to happen?

I don't have experience in the subject but recently listened to a podcast episode discussing the tension between open source and building a sustainable business by Oxide and Friends.

https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/open-source-and-capita...

https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/open-source-anti-patte...

It's funny this all to do about Yet-Another-Simple/Static-Blog generator or whatever

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I’d like to see a “no jerks” license. It’d be MIT by default, but call out specific bad actors as being disallowed from using the software. That way your average corporate user wouldn’t need to consult a lawyer before adopting

Thanks for the bear blog.

Considering how LLM companies don't respect licenses, and if your livelihood depends on it, I'd go a step further and only make the source available upon request, under strict agreements about how it's used.

There's a lot of "open-source" nowadays that has nothing to do with the spirit of hacking.

Silly. Globally over half of smartphone users have Android phones. Bear was actually the only thing that kept me in the Apple ecosystem for so long, was really bummed when I switched to Android to have to move to another notes program.

IMO - you are charging money for your app which makes you a business. When you don't listen to the market you forfeit any right to complain when you get your lunch money stolen. Sounds hard but most lessons in business are expensive!