#fauxpen
Give Up GitHub: The Time Has Come! - Conservancy Blog - Software Freedom Conservancy
Hate paywalls? 12ft.io is the answer
asking people to work for free offends me. maybe try solving that problem first
EULAs Aren't Inherently Evil — /dev/lawyer
Other tha:
- that you then need a lawyer to negotiate, interpret and verify said contract and that is a *giant* barrier to entry for most people.
- you still have to rely on the co,pany to fix bugs, addd features instead of being able to depend on other users of the software.
Oh- and that the argument presented here can be reversed into “given that company X is providing such a flexible license, why don’t they just open source it and save everybody the lawyer fees?”