> I simply do not want to be in a situation where my software that I develop as a passion project on the side is holding people's companies together.
People love to hate on Richard Stallman but he was really clear about the motivation for Free Software (which is not the same as Open Source but shares some tenets).
What companies do with the source is their thing. They get all of the benefits and all of the responsibilities. But the beautiful thing is that if that maintainer is dead or missing or no longer interested, you CAN fix it. Which is very difficult / nigh impossible for closed source.
People love to hate on Richard Stallman but he was really clear about the motivation for Free Software (which is not the same as Open Source but shares some tenets).
What companies do with the source is their thing. They get all of the benefits and all of the responsibilities. But the beautiful thing is that if that maintainer is dead or missing or no longer interested, you CAN fix it. Which is very difficult / nigh impossible for closed source.