The k8s community is mostly people who work for commercial interests and use k8s in their companies. If you develop a component of the k8s ecosystem, and you want people to use it, you can't really exclude businesses from using it. There just aren't enough installations outside of commercial spaces for it to be relevant.
I think community source should be accessible and usable outside the community. A community license should have a provision for paid use by corporations. If Microsoft wants to use it that is fine - if they pay.
But if Microsoft wants to fork things, to me that is predatory. If I can't fork windows, why should they be able to fork community software? If they argue that people should pay for their products, it just seems fair to me that they should not get community products for free.
> I think community source should be accessible and usable outside the community. A community license should have a provision for paid use by corporations. If Microsoft wants to use it that is fine - if they pay.
That violates the first clause of the open source definition:
> But if Microsoft wants to fork things, to me that is predatory. If I can't fork windows, why should they be able to fork community software? If they argue that people should pay for their products, it just seems fair to me that they should not get community products for free.
Maybe the open source definition needs to change, or it is time to find a better way of protecting community software? This one is clearly (in some ways) not working.
> Maybe the open source definition needs to change
Maybe you rather don't actually want your software to be open source. Maybe you rather want your software to be under some copyleft license. Maybe you want to use an OSS license that is inconvenient for cloud providers (while still being an open source license) like the AGPL.
the OSCL turned 18 years old a month ago. maybe things have changed enough since then to validate revisiting it.
OSI is too busy trying to come up with an equally mid (at best) OSAID for another thing thing that corporations already don't and won't care about following, so I don't expect them to prioritize it even if it got raised
I think one of the most important parts of open source is that it's available to even those you don't like.
I simply do not get this corporate hate. Corporations and individuals can both use it for good and bad. A company might use open source to make a pacemaker to save lives or world improving research, or it might be Facebook and sell personal data.
