alt Hacker NewsMy advice to all OSS developers: if you open source your project, expect it to be abused in all possible ways. Don't open source if you have anxiety over it. It is how the world works, whether we like it or not.
I appreciate that you open source your projects for us to study. But TBH, please help yourself first.
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pocksuppet • today at 5:52 PM
In particular, if you license it MIT, and it's useful, expect Amazon to make a fork, not give you the source code, and each tens of millions of dollars from it while you don't get a cent.
There's writing code for charity, and then there's this. Charity wasn't meant to include hyper-corporations.
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There is even a software "law" related to this: https://www.hyrumslaw.com/
" With a sufficient number of users of an API, it does not matter what you promise in the contract: all observable behaviors of your system will be depended on by somebody. "