Open source and cloud

#1

Post by codingandcoding » Sun, Dec 24, 2017, 7:49 AM UTC

posting this to see if someone else is also having similar feeling: if cloud providers are selling the open source products, shouldn't the committers get paid as well? I agree that supporting the cloud product has some additional work, but isn't that based on the core product? say, if there's no MySQL, how can RDS work?

I understand the existing open source licenses are not having any constraints on this, but shouldn't there be a new open source license to solve this problem?

the developers wrote the software, they can be used by other persons and companies so long that they are not re-selling the software product itself, especially in the cloud. if they are sold in the cloud, the cloud providers should pay some money back to the developers.

In my personal opinion this could be more fair and may potentially be a better way of open source software development mode.

Re: Open source and cloud

#2

Post by Annatar » Sun, Dec 24, 2017, 9:06 AM UTC

posting this to see if someone else is also having similar feeling: if cloud providers are selling the open source products, shouldn't the committers get paid as well?

Feelings have no place in computer science or information technology!!!

The only way the committers can make money with their open source code is through selling support contracts because other methods are unreliable.

Re: Open source and cloud

#3

Post by codingandcoding » Sun, Dec 24, 2017, 12:46 PM UTC

Annatar wrote: post #2

posting this to see if someone else is also having similar feeling: if cloud providers are selling the open source products, shouldn't the committers get paid as well? Feelings have no place in computer science or information technology!!! The only way the committers can make money with their open source code is through selling support contracts because other methods are unreliable.

that's why I wonder if some new open source license may be useful, the cloud providers are all big players that I totally believe they will respect all the licenses

Re: Open source and cloud

#4

Post by QuinnyPig » Sun, Dec 24, 2017, 10:16 PM UTC

Let's pretend MySQL had such a license. The cloud providers would then likely either use a fork, or simply skip that technology entirely.

You'd need projects without viable competition (think: the Linux kernel) to use such a license for it to take hold.

Re: Open source and cloud

#5

Post by codingandcoding » Mon, Dec 25, 2017, 2:32 AM UTC

QuinnyPig wrote: post #4

Let's pretend MySQL had such a license. The cloud providers would then likely either use a fork, or simply skip that technology entirely. You'd need projects without viable competition (think: the Linux kernel) to use such a license for it to take hold.

wondering if a cloud provider (especially those behind aws) will take this as an opportunity to catch up if the open source software is really good?