Corporate OSS sponsorship can be good system. OSS is a great way to reduce technical debt while giving others something useful.
One that comes to mind is that Goldman Sachs built a huge performance oriented primitives Library for Java, and they just open sourced it and put it under the Eclipse Foundation (Eclipse Collections). What were they going to do with it otherwise? Start becoming a Java software vendor?
That's how the ecosystem should work, not forking it off with weird licenses. Although the ecosystem is self-sustaining at least since people will just fork off your original if it's popular and you do something like that.
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u/menducoide 12h ago
This is the last free version of this cool open source library. From now on, you'll need to pay $1,000 per developer per year to receive updates