[HN Gopher] Preventing the bait and switch by open core software...
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       Preventing the bait and switch by open core software companies
        
       Author : sytse
       Score  : 8 points
       Date   : 2022-10-27 21:38 UTC (1 hours ago)
        
 (HTM) web link (opencoreventures.com)
 (TXT) w3m dump (opencoreventures.com)
        
       | ericb wrote:
       | "Our Mission"
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       | > We form companies centered around open source software projects
       | with commercial applications. Rather than founders pitching us
       | for investments, OCV identifies open source projects with
       | traction and potential and seeks out builders and technologists
       | to launch our ideas. OCV Fund I invests the personal capital of
       | Sid Sijbrandij who serves as the General Partner of the firm.
       | 
       | So, this company takes the hard work of creator(s) who have been
       | generous with their licensing terms, and in the name of
       | "preventing them from using a more restrictive license" tries
       | curtails their business opportunities by offering a legal
       | structure with more favorable terms.
       | 
       | To me, it seems like, if it offers no business opportunities,
       | then people just won't use permissive licenses for open core in
       | the first place? To me, if I'm going to give money to someone,
       | I'd like it to be the innovator.
        
       | pessimizer wrote:
       | > Only copyleft licenses with a developer certificate of origin
       | (DCO) can protect open source indefinitely
        
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