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Correct. This is what makes me feel guilty about releasing a closed-source product, or even one with a non-OSI license. It’s irrational, but I feel like I’ve benefited so massively from FOSS that I owe it to the community to contribute back.

EDIT: as another commenter wrote below, OSI is driven by massive cloud vendors, who have a vested interest in having their freedoms to take projects and monetize them. Perhaps a somewhat restrictive license isn’t a bad thing.



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