Well I think Amazon and many other huge companies are having many unethical activities, and I think we should not think that if big companies do certain things, that it should be ok for us to do it too.
HN is a community of hackers, not business people that are only commercially interested. But Hackers need money too, so we also need to be a little bit commercial. But it would be ideal if we could be commercial without having to give up the hacker ethic.
But many people don't believe it's easy to be open source and commercial at the same time. Why would people pay if they don't have to?
I'm thinking of a new form of software licencing: what if we make a license that says that a particular piece of software must become open source after for example 5 years. Then the developer can sell the software they wrote for 5 years long, and after that it will become open source.
This would give FOSS developers more motivation to create software, and the community will benefit eventually, so people won't feel too hesitative paying for the software, because it will eventually benefit everyone.
> HN is a community of hackers, not business people
From what I read here daily, it is becoming an anti-hacker, anti-worker, anti-individual and pro-big business community.
One of the proofs is this theread. You can see People defending AWS...
BUT my point is not AWS is wrong, but supporting AWS and criticizing individuals is what is wrong.
And no one noticed this, and has already started defending AWS.
HN is a community of hackers, not business people that are only commercially interested. But Hackers need money too, so we also need to be a little bit commercial. But it would be ideal if we could be commercial without having to give up the hacker ethic.
But many people don't believe it's easy to be open source and commercial at the same time. Why would people pay if they don't have to?
I'm thinking of a new form of software licencing: what if we make a license that says that a particular piece of software must become open source after for example 5 years. Then the developer can sell the software they wrote for 5 years long, and after that it will become open source.
This would give FOSS developers more motivation to create software, and the community will benefit eventually, so people won't feel too hesitative paying for the software, because it will eventually benefit everyone.