I somehow still don’t get what single vendor open source code is, even after reading the article.
Is it code that is open source but the license says “no forking.” And maybe the license says they are allowed to fork it and chance the license to proprietary?
Or is it code that is open source, but nobody has ever bothered to fork it. With the potential spin that sometimes code is just so specific that nobody would bother forking it because it is super tied to some platform or hardware.
The former, that just seems like looming proprietary code. The latter, I dunno, can’t blame people for implementing niche projects I guess.
Is it code that is open source but the license says “no forking.” And maybe the license says they are allowed to fork it and chance the license to proprietary?
Or is it code that is open source, but nobody has ever bothered to fork it. With the potential spin that sometimes code is just so specific that nobody would bother forking it because it is super tied to some platform or hardware.
The former, that just seems like looming proprietary code. The latter, I dunno, can’t blame people for implementing niche projects I guess.