alt Hacker News> Protecting the user's right to compete with the developer is not sustainable.
It's only unsustainable when you are interested in keeping "user" and "developer" as distinct sets.
> The hyperscalers aren't giving back 1/1,000,000th of what they've taken. Yet we go after "source available" or "fair source" like it's some grave evil.
No we are going after it when people try to pass it off as open source when it really isn't.
I like open source because it means I'm not beholden to the original developer in any way as long as I pay it forward. I'm OK if this means you can't find a profitable business model.
I can't comprehend this view at all.
I hate open source purism. It's not pragmatic and it's enabled us to be resold a world with ever disappearing rights.
This view is okay with hyperscalers. But it attacks the small developer.
The hyperscalers are removing our freedoms and privacy. Not small developers.
We need leverage against this.