> It used to be that you could pick an open source project and build a business on it and expect that the project would stay available to you under those well understood terms.
By "used to be" you mean for a brief period in the 2000s, right? Because this extremely generous open source landscape we have seen in the past 20 years were not the normal state of software for most of software's existence.
A generous open source landscape is something we -- you, I, the readers of HN -- have to actively maintain by shouldering the burden of maintaining the correctly licenced software. We cannot trust this important job to profit-making corporations.
By "used to be" you mean for a brief period in the 2000s, right? Because this extremely generous open source landscape we have seen in the past 20 years were not the normal state of software for most of software's existence.
A generous open source landscape is something we -- you, I, the readers of HN -- have to actively maintain by shouldering the burden of maintaining the correctly licenced software. We cannot trust this important job to profit-making corporations.