Comment by toast0
21 hours ago
> but open source purists ostensibly care about "free as in freedom" (libre).
Your business is unlikely to get revenue from these customers, so your business shouldn't feel an obligation to satisfy them.
21 hours ago
> but open source purists ostensibly care about "free as in freedom" (libre).
Your business is unlikely to get revenue from these customers, so your business shouldn't feel an obligation to satisfy them.
That absolutely isn't true as a blanket statement. It varies a lot in terms of B2B vs B2C, distribution model, etc.
With B2B software using the popular model of "paid hosted SaaS + libre self-host", you can definitely get revenue from companies who happen to employ some open source purists. Ditto with the model of "libre self-host with paid technical support". But all of this is much harder with a non-OSI license, since the open source purists will protest, regardless of whether or not the company is even running the self-host version.
Software adoption also tends to follow network effects, so having any contingent of vocal people complaining about license choice is bad news for a business.