<div dir="auto">Hi Christine,<div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">Don't paint with too broad a brush. I understand your concern - open source is not a business plan! - but there are businesses and business plan that are fully aligned with the goals of the community.</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">Thanks,</div><div dir="auto">Van<br><br><div data-smartmail="gmail_signature" dir="auto">__________________________<br>Van Lindberg<br><a href="mailto:van.lindberg@gmail.com">van.lindberg@gmail.com</a><br>m: 214.364.7985</div></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Wed, Jul 3, 2019, 5:43 PM Christine Hall <<a href="mailto:christine@fossforce.com">christine@fossforce.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">On second thought, it's not the enterprise, or enterprise users, who <br>
want restrictive licenses. It's vendors/developers seeking enterprise <br>
customers who want to continue calling their software open source, but <br>
be able to use non open source restrictions because their business plan <br>
doesn't work.<br>
<br>
Christine Hall<br>
Publisher & Editor<br>
FOSS Force: Keeping tech free<br>
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On 7/3/19 5:05 PM, Bruce Perens via License-discuss wrote:<br>
> On Wed, Jul 3, 2019 at 2:00 PM Christine Hall <<a href="mailto:christine@fossforce.com" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer">christine@fossforce.com</a> <br>
> <mailto:<a href="mailto:christine@fossforce.com" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer">christine@fossforce.com</a>>> wrote:<br>
> <br>
> as long as there are permissive licenses, the enterprise is quite<br>
> happy with the way things are.<br>
> <br>
> <br>
> Well, obviously, it's /restrictive /licenses they want from us now. And <br>
> they can have them from Polyform and co., we don't and can't restrict <br>
> anyone from using the license of their choice on their own work. Just <br>
> please don't call them Open Source.<br>
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