♻️ Rug pulls, forks, and open-source feudalism | LWN
｢ But a fork is not a simple matter; it is a lot of work, and will fail without people and resources behind it. The natural source for that is a large company; cloud providers, too, can try to shift power via a fork, and they have the ability to back their fork up with the resources it needs to succeed ｣
A trip down memory lane just reminded me of #HarmonyAgreements;
"Contribution agreements are one available tool out of many in an overall legal strategy for FOSS developers, the entities that distribute their work, and the users of their work. We hope that our work will enable more people to contribute code, by reducing the cognitive cost and legal time of reviewing contribution agreements."
https://www.harmonyagreements.org/about
Do you know about this project @smallcircles?
A trip down memory lane just reminded me of #HarmonyAgreements;
"Contribution agreements are one available tool out of many in an overall legal strategy for FOSS developers, the entities that distribute their work, and the users of their work. We hope that our work will enable more people to contribute code, by reducing the cognitive cost and legal time of reviewing contribution agreements."
https://www.harmonyagreements.org/about
Do you know about this project @smallcircles?
