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rubinlinux | 1 year ago

Nobody wants to 'read' your source code!

The entire point of choosing to use open source projects is that if you, the author, begin to enshitify the product (Or simply start to move in a direction different from users) users can fork the project and carry on an un-enshitified version.

If you can't compete with the author, you can't do that. So what is the point of picking software using this license over traditional closed source?

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maccard|1 year ago

It's not _just_ read, it's read and modify but not redistribute in a way that competes with the original product,

> So what is the point of picking software using this license over traditional closed source?

I don't want to compete with Sentry (or a variety of other open-like applications), but I _do_ want to support my employers identity provider, fix bugs (and push them back), and maybe even add features that I/my team use. As an example, I've personally contributed multiple bug fixes, performance improvements and documentation changes to sentry's libraries. I don't want to compete with sentry, I want them to maintain my improvements and for other developers to benefit from my work.