Come on, Amazon: If you're going to copy open-source code for a new product, at least credit the creator 📦

27    17 Oct 2020 03:13 by u/Arador

3 comments

3 u/RootHouston 17 Oct 2020 17:37
"He said he hadn't given the license for Headless Recorder a lot of thought because it's just a browser extension full of client-side code" C'mon. If you're going to pick a license, then don't bitch about it if it doesn't turn out how you like. The guy should've spent some more time thinking about licensing. Amazon obviously does some scummy stuff, but if they aren't violating any licenses, and this guy is mad because he just slapped some random license on there, he needs to shut the fuck up, and own up to the fact that he caused his own problem.
2 u/None 17 Oct 2020 05:03
This really makes me avoid creating stuff to show the world going down the tunnel of open source...Its easy to copy and paste and steal... Open source is cool but its free work and anything valuable in this society has a dollar sign...
1 u/RootHouston 17 Oct 2020 17:33
Hmm, wonder how Red Hat became a multi-billion dollar company...? The fact is that open source software actually makes some big time money. Not necessarily for the software itself, but rather the support, implementation, and hosting of such software. If you're writing little desktop apps that nobody cares about, obviously you aren't going to make any money that way, but to claim that open source in general is like that, well it's just not true. Some other examples of companies making money off of open source software are CloudBees, Canonical, SUSE, Elastic, MongoDB, GitLab, Confluent, Mozilla Corporation, and MariaDB Corporation You may be interested in reading this Wikipedia article: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Business_models_for_open-source_software