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This seems to ignore the first part of the story, where Hashicorp builds up a community around an open source project and relicenses the project. OpenTofu and now OpenBao wouldn't …

Creators with decent-sized portfolios will just train their own models. > He told me the training process took about 2.5 hours on a GPU at Vast.ai, and cost less than $2. This is a…

Valve's 2 hour refund option came in direct response to a 2014 lawsuit from the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission[1]. Rod Sims, head of ACCC at the time, asserted that…

Is it any more shortsighted than using the "open tools" in the first place? There will be integration costs and maintenance of integration with open tools. You may not be able to p…

It’s not sudden and it’s not limited to python libraries. The popular open source projects make great targets for low-multiple acqui-hires, derisking the investment. They also have…

> You either die a hero or you live long enough to see yourself become the villain

You are intentionally misrepresenting OP. > When will VC companies stop *conflating source available with open source*? *Misrepresenting* "open source" is the problem. "source avai…

> It is difficult to get a man to understand something when his salary depends upon his not understanding it. - Upton Sinclair

Discord video calls also beat the pants off Teams, Zoom, and Meet.

The author of Zod had an insightful comment on FOSS and monetization https://twitter.com/colinhacks/status/1422222156340072456 > whether an OSS project lends itself to monetization…

This is still happening today. There are multiple VC groups trawling through GitHub trending and star lists to find potential investment targets. The Shopify acquisition of Remix (…

When projects vendor or copy from other projects, license bodies typically include all relevant copyright statements and licenses even if the license body is the same as the parent…

Does it matter if "the guy is doing proper crypto" if he is getting paid by "pyramid scheme money"? Arguably it is worse since his presence is ostensibly legitimizing the "pyramid …

It's not unreasonable for the US federal government to ban employees of the US federal government from using Australian banking apps on work devices issued by the US federal govern…

It is not unreasonable for governments to require all apps be published by US companies

If you walk the logic to its conclusion, you might be better off taking the ToS ban: "received wrong item but didn't fight" -> "concern that future orders may be wrong" -> "use ama…