Even more curiously, the faker.js Readme file has also been changed to “What really happened with Aaron Swartz?”
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“Respectfully, I am no longer going to support Fortune 500s (and other smaller sized companies) with my free work,” he says. “Take this as an opportunity to send me a six figure yearly contract or fork the project and have someone else work on it.”
Organize Open Source now. This person was real close to getting it
Respectfully, I am no longer going to support Fortune 500s (and other smaller sized companies) with my free work
If I did not want leeches leeching off my work I would have simply used the GPL or a compatible license. There’s a reason techbros jerk off to the MIT license, and it’s not in your best interests.
As much as FOSS people circlejerk about it, GPL and other copyleft licenses don't actually prevent giant megacorps from using your code. They'll just do it quietly and dare you to try suing their billion-dollar legal department when you catch them.
Nothing stops Amazon from spinning up millions of instances of some GPL program or library on their own machines and renting access to it. The GPL makes sense for end-user software like a web browser or a word processor, but it is woefully insufficient for middleware and services.
Organize Open Source now. This person was real close to getting it
If I did not want leeches leeching off my work I would have simply used the GPL or a compatible license. There’s a reason techbros jerk off to the MIT license, and it’s not in your best interests.
As much as FOSS people circlejerk about it, GPL and other copyleft licenses don't actually prevent giant megacorps from using your code. They'll just do it quietly and dare you to try suing their billion-dollar legal department when you catch them.
But the law ! :BibleThump:
Nothing stops Amazon from spinning up millions of instances of some GPL program or library on their own machines and renting access to it. The GPL makes sense for end-user software like a web browser or a word processor, but it is woefully insufficient for middleware and services.
The AGPL stops exactly that, in theory of course.