[License-discuss] Query on "delayed open source" licensing

[Russell Nelson]

Producing open source software isn't a bad thing, even if you don't get 
it immediately. OSI's position toward proprietary software has always 
been that the proprietary nature has a cost in terms of outside 
contributions to your software. I mean, I never knew that the Pep Boys 
were using my Token Ring packet driver until I received a floppy disk in 
the mail. Their improvements were valuable, coming from an actual user 
of the software.

We don't criticize people for producing proprietary software. We think 
that the proprietary nature is its own punishment.

On 10/27/23 14:06, Bradley M. Kuhn wrote:
> IMO, taking a “neutral” position on a practice that is clearly bad for
> consumers isn't really neutrality; it's merely tacit support of the incumbent
> authority.