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0 pointscheriot3y ago0 comments

I'm not talking about legal rights. Surely they've managed the contributor agreement to make this option possible. However, they also built a community around open source software and there's more to that relationship than legalities.

> AKKA coming out with a commercial license does not make things worse for you

If I had invested my career in becoming an advocate for their product I'd now be worse off. It can't be introduced without going through legal and procurement. I can't take it home and build a small business without wondering what next year's pricing model will be.

I hope Akka's owners succeed. I also hope none of the tools I invest my time learning and introducing at work do this.

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galaxyLogic3y ago

If you had invested your career in AKKA I would feel your pain and disappointment, and the feeling of being cheated with lofty talk about open source.

But you might still have a strong career in supporting customers who use the commercial version of AKKA, they are the ones who could pay your salary. And you could fork it, and be the leader of that community. Until perhaps you decided to make a commercial fork as well. :-)

I think it is in a way a good sign when an open-source project creates a commercial fork of itself, it shows there are paying customers for the software, it validates its existence.

And I think it shows these guys believe in their product.

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