Apache PLC4X creator ends free support, asks for payment for his work

Great talk about the status of Open Source. It starts off by talking about a developer leaving an open source project.

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What you are saying is fine, until this:

“What’s referred to as the open source sustainability problem has played out on a large scale where companies like Amazon have been accused of co-opting open source projects to stifle smaller competitors like Elasticsearch and MongoDB.”

Companies are using open source to end smaller companies. There should be protection, practical and written, against that. At least the smaller companies should be the ones benefitting from it.

This is not a problem with FOSS. It’s an economic system issue. I don’t see how paying FOSS developers more solves this particular problem. What people need to do is stop using proprietary software and relying on mega corporations like Amazon out of convenience, or at least perceived convenience.

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