a private fork is a huge maintenance liability. good luck when a CVE drops for the upstream repo and you have to scramble to backport the patch to your snowflake version before customers are compromised
vesnanomikai 4 hours ago||
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charcircuit 5 hours ago||
Packaging up open source projects and selling them is done all the time is done all the time and is a good business model since you can outsource a lot of the work and bug fixing to people who will do it for free instead of having to pay someone.
mrgoldenbrown 4 hours ago|
The selling wasn't the problem here. The problem was lying about what they were doing and violating the terms of the license.
randyrand 3 hours ago||
So they added marketing and support on top. Sounds like how you run a business.
theturtletalks 3 hours ago|
That's one thing I'm loving about AI adoption and everyone vibe coding, the importance of open-source. When I was learning how to code, it blew my mind when I realized proprietary companies were built on the shoulders of great open-source projects. These provide a nice UI/UX and the marketing, but AI coding is making that less and less of a moat.