Open Source Maintainer Seeks Feedback on Preventing Corporate Exploitation of Their Project
By
emschwartz
Crisp on the outside, thoughtful on the inside. A keeper.
Summary
An open source maintainer discusses their frustration with how large corporations exploit open source projects without giving back, and seeks community feedback on how to prevent 'bad guys' and big companies from using their popular open source package. The author expresses concerns about open source sustainability and exploitation, noting this was a draft posted prematurely to Hacker News but leaving it up for discussion.
Key quotes
· 5 pulledI maintain a sorta-popular open source package, and I want to prevent big corporations and 'bad guys' from using it.
I've been learning more about how open source is exploited by large companies.
Frustratingly, this was a semi-private draft that got posted to Hacker News before I could make edits.
I want feedback on how to do this.
Open source and exploitation
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