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bphogan | 4 years ago

I think you're missing my point. I have tons of MIT code out there, including a node.js project used by lots of companies. I don't care about people using my code for money because I open sourced it under a permissive license. So I'm not really objecting to that.

But what's bothering me about this is that it's not a small company doing this. It's a company that's got crazy amounts of cash, who has been trying to trade on a "we're nice now and we love open source" image in the last few years, now taking all the open source code and balling it up in a closed-source app they will charge us for.

I'd be fine if I got to use it for free, extend it to whatever editing platform I like through its open API, and it was a part of an open project.

But right now it looks like they'll charge, and that bugs me.

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