Name: Anonymous 2018-02-18 0:08
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It can cost as much as $600,000 to use it without open sourcing all your code or risking getting sued by a multinational corporation.
$600,000 to legally use a program that was developed and released for free by BSD programmers in the 90s. What did Oracle et al. do with it? They made the modern versions all dual-licensed so they could fuck the BSD programmers' proverbial wives while they watched.
Of course you could say it's a good thing and encourages people to open source their code. But that's neither the point nor a very good one--it's that someone is making money from something they did not make or buy. Ethically, that sounds like stealing to me.
Fuck this halfway dual license bullshit. If Oracle flat out closed sourced Berkeley DB and charged for it like they do for their other database, I wouldn't be complaining. The community at that point would have taken the pre-Oracle copy of Berkeley DB and maintained it like MariaDB. Now no one will bother to maintain a free Berkeley DB because everyone will say, "Just use the Oracle one retard."
This is why you should only ever contribute to or create open source projects under GPL v3. Either you do closed source to make money off it or open source out of the goodness of your heart/because it's unmarketable shit.
It can cost as much as $600,000 to use it without open sourcing all your code or risking getting sued by a multinational corporation.
$600,000 to legally use a program that was developed and released for free by BSD programmers in the 90s. What did Oracle et al. do with it? They made the modern versions all dual-licensed so they could fuck the BSD programmers' proverbial wives while they watched.
Of course you could say it's a good thing and encourages people to open source their code. But that's neither the point nor a very good one--it's that someone is making money from something they did not make or buy. Ethically, that sounds like stealing to me.
Fuck this halfway dual license bullshit. If Oracle flat out closed sourced Berkeley DB and charged for it like they do for their other database, I wouldn't be complaining. The community at that point would have taken the pre-Oracle copy of Berkeley DB and maintained it like MariaDB. Now no one will bother to maintain a free Berkeley DB because everyone will say, "Just use the Oracle one retard."
This is why you should only ever contribute to or create open source projects under GPL v3. Either you do closed source to make money off it or open source out of the goodness of your heart/because it's unmarketable shit.