Thanks for commenting. Yea you're right but any type of issue like this will bring on great discussion and people can learn from it. For example, maybe we should be using a different software license, instead of MIT as a standard.
It's not about the license. It's about evaluating your goals in life periodically. As with most open source software, you start out noble: to solve a problem you've solved multiple times already and helping others at the same time.
If circumstances in your life change so that you no longer can afford to be that noble, then stop maintaining.
Secondly, it's dellusional to think you can become wealthy with a tiny package that can only do one thing (say, 80% of npm's packages) - no matter how complex internally. But you are going to have millions of users, because the more abstract and smaller in scope, the easier it is to integrate into other things. If you cannot handle that "disconnect", then by all means, don't do open source (but, then also don't expect to get millions of users if you charge for it). The projects that can fund themselves with open source, through (corperate) donations are frameworks and complex tools and even then the total yearly revenue of the companies that are using your framework is many orders of magnitude larger than your rake in donations (for example, Django ~200k donations over 2021 versus Instagram / Chaturbate / Dropbox / Pinterest as some of its coroporate users).
So no license is going to help you there.
Then you'd have to go old school: hire programers, make software that needs to be installed and invest in anti-piracy. Then patent some of your programming principles and get noticed enough to be bought up.
Or, like Marak did: create a SAAS with a pricing model, but can't afford to patent the idea, before it gets stolen.
So I'm really surprised why we're blaming the license and not the fact that you can just blatantly use someone elses SAAS solution while copying it and saying it's your new invention. Not saying we need laws for that. Patent laws are bad enough as is, but why is there not more outrage and backlash towards those copy cats from Retool?
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Thanks for commenting. Yea you're right but any type of issue like this will bring on great discussion and people can learn from it. For example, maybe we should be using a different software license, instead of MIT as a standard.
It's not about the license. It's about evaluating your goals in life periodically. As with most open source software, you start out noble: to solve a problem you've solved multiple times already and helping others at the same time.
If circumstances in your life change so that you no longer can afford to be that noble, then stop maintaining.
Secondly, it's dellusional to think you can become wealthy with a tiny package that can only do one thing (say, 80% of npm's packages) - no matter how complex internally. But you are going to have millions of users, because the more abstract and smaller in scope, the easier it is to integrate into other things. If you cannot handle that "disconnect", then by all means, don't do open source (but, then also don't expect to get millions of users if you charge for it). The projects that can fund themselves with open source, through (corperate) donations are frameworks and complex tools and even then the total yearly revenue of the companies that are using your framework is many orders of magnitude larger than your rake in donations (for example, Django ~200k donations over 2021 versus Instagram / Chaturbate / Dropbox / Pinterest as some of its coroporate users).
So no license is going to help you there.
Then you'd have to go old school: hire programers, make software that needs to be installed and invest in anti-piracy. Then patent some of your programming principles and get noticed enough to be bought up.
Or, like Marak did: create a SAAS with a pricing model, but can't afford to patent the idea, before it gets stolen.
So I'm really surprised why we're blaming the license and not the fact that you can just blatantly use someone elses SAAS solution while copying it and saying it's your new invention. Not saying we need laws for that. Patent laws are bad enough as is, but why is there not more outrage and backlash towards those copy cats from Retool?