alt Hacker News> They want to seem altruistic but want to also be the only provider.
This is an overly negative take. At the end of the day, they are still providing software and the source code free to use for practically every purpose except directly competing with them.
That's still altruistic while also being sensible in the real world rather than an ideal.
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foxglacier • last Monday at 4:30 PM
Not for practically every purpose. It's a blog platform to be used by services that provide blog hosting, just like his own business does, so any use of it would be directly competing with him. From TFA, he never wanted people to actually use it, just to look at the source code.
The license disallows use of the software for what it is intended: setting up a multi-user blogging system.