@philip@kaia He’s a Linux guy who maintains packages you probably use. So, I think the analogy is more “I cook spaghetti every day. No one cares about linguini.”
@dalias I've heard bonkers stories of people selecting dependencies based on number of stars.That should alarm basically anyone.
OTOH: there is a disease of being data driven to the point that bigco leadership people can't operate without a number that indicates up-and-to-the-right. Consequently, they latch their jaws into anything that looks like that type of metric. Then people start playing games...
It also normalizes stretching the meaning of open source. So, when I try to explain that various source available licenses are not open source, I'm fighting against people with major audiences saying otherwise.
However, I'm going to go 'Old Man Yells at Cloud' on calling it open source and how the maker projects and #3Dprinting may be unintentionally damaging the general understanding of #OpenSource.
a) the model is CC BY-NC-SA 4.0. That is unambiguously not open source: NC means it restricts fields of endeavour.
b) It 'remixes' code without a license from pastebin.
"The point I’m attempting to make is that when a company, built on Open-Source, tries to lock it down, almost always in defence of falling margins and a perceived “ripping off” by others, it fails to re-invigorate the community"
@csolisr@ThunderComplex probably very little seeing that it was forked before the license change.
That’s how #OpenSearch came from Elasticsearch when similar shenanigans were pulled. They are on their own from this point forward.
(I haven’t played with KeyDB, but the other multithreaded Redis clones or forks substantially changed the dynamics of use, so it might not be a drop in replacement)
@ThunderComplex You'd need a law degree to fully understand the parameters in that (and IANAL), but I wouldn't personally fork Redis after the license change.
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