Apart from mirroring the sentiments of the neighboring comment regarding AGPL, that is not really the point. Companies are more than welcome to choose what things they want to open source or not open source, it's just that this stupid magic trick of "Now it's open, now it's not" is fooling people who choose software based on the ideals of open source software so that 1. foolish contributors can contribute to just another closed/shared source enterprise products for free, even if the work of outside contributors are small 2. they can ratchet up the ladder, going from attracting smaller players and open source companies all the way to enterprise customers, making you wonder if it was their plan all along, to just deceive you.
I don't have the same complaints about many open source business models, because they do not involve deception. If you contribute to Gitlab CE, it is still properly open source even if it may benefit Gitlab EE customers. BSL is not an open source license though, so Terraform is no longer an open source project. Does that matter to enterprises? Nope. Does that matter to me? I think you know the answer to that.
But it's yet another harsh lesson that you should never, ever sign a CLA outside of stuff you contribute as a result of your job. If you ever sign a CLA for work you're not being paid for, you're clearly getting scammed in slow motion.
And if abusing the goodwill that comes with open source (or maybe came with, at this point, since now we all see where this is headed from here on out) is the only way for not every company to be Amazon, maybe there's some much larger problem going on there.
Exactly. Developers like us wind up being internal evangelists for less-proven but promising products, and open source ideals help a lot with selling something less proven.
I don't have the same complaints about many open source business models, because they do not involve deception. If you contribute to Gitlab CE, it is still properly open source even if it may benefit Gitlab EE customers. BSL is not an open source license though, so Terraform is no longer an open source project. Does that matter to enterprises? Nope. Does that matter to me? I think you know the answer to that.
But it's yet another harsh lesson that you should never, ever sign a CLA outside of stuff you contribute as a result of your job. If you ever sign a CLA for work you're not being paid for, you're clearly getting scammed in slow motion.
And if abusing the goodwill that comes with open source (or maybe came with, at this point, since now we all see where this is headed from here on out) is the only way for not every company to be Amazon, maybe there's some much larger problem going on there.