Comment

Comment by xanathar

> Sadly, open source is prone to the infamous “Tragedy of the commons”, which shows that we are prone to act in our self-interest,

Like, when somebody releases something open source, then notice that they can actually make money out of it and they change the license at the last minute. Oh the hypocrisy.

Seriously if you're bothered by people making money out of your product, keep it closed source, nothing wrong with it. On the contrary a plague of the latest years is this pressure that everything should be open source: it doesn't need to. If you're not comfortable with it, keep it closed source.

But if you decide to open source something, keep your promises, no matter what.

parent xanathar 4 years ago

Discussion

Live from the official Hacker News API

A modern reader for Hacker News · SvelteKit + Skeleton