> So people can argue it doesn’t work, but so far we only have evidence to the contrary and Sentry is quite successful
So, RedHat has also been successful?
GP says that some companies don't find FSL aggressive enough, despite it having worked nicely for Sentry. And that's similar to the point Adam makes: That Open Source (per OSI not FSF) is a development model not a business model. Companies that don't want/need to prioritize collaboration tend to use FSL / BUSL / etc; but those licenses aren't really going to significantly change their development or business (other than prevent competition from using it as-is, but now the code is out there anyway [0][1]), and so they might as well go close source (and Lockdown the code, too).
> issue is these are mostly academic points of view
Both, commodotizing competition (through OSS) and using OSS as Go-To-Market aren't academic PoVs, I don't think.
So, RedHat has also been successful?
GP says that some companies don't find FSL aggressive enough, despite it having worked nicely for Sentry. And that's similar to the point Adam makes: That Open Source (per OSI not FSF) is a development model not a business model. Companies that don't want/need to prioritize collaboration tend to use FSL / BUSL / etc; but those licenses aren't really going to significantly change their development or business (other than prevent competition from using it as-is, but now the code is out there anyway [0][1]), and so they might as well go close source (and Lockdown the code, too).
> issue is these are mostly academic points of view
Both, commodotizing competition (through OSS) and using OSS as Go-To-Market aren't academic PoVs, I don't think.
[0] And trained on by LLMs, which makes cloning probably that much faster? https://x.com/paultoo/status/1999245292294803914 / https://archive.vn/kTiyZ
[1] Companies will deep pockets and technical expertise can/will anyway clone it: https://bcantrill.dtrace.org/2018/12/14/open-source-confront...