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LawrenceKerr • today at 9:29 AM • 1 reply • view on HN

And what's wrong with that?

Shouldn't we encourage more companies starting like this, have a (permissive) open source platform anyone can use, while also offering a commercial managed service.

It's a model that's been around for a long time, but is now gaining more traction thanks to AI commoditizing software development. And I think it's an improvement over the closed-source giants we are used to having dominate each market (and strangle customers through annual price increases, especially when acquired and their investors are looking to squeeze out a return).

unfortunately, this openship thing is copyleft though, so not particularly permissive vs. Apache 2.0 or MIT-licensed alternatives, but still...


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theturtletalks • today at 12:18 PM

Openship is copy left, Openfronts are all MIT. Some are missing the license since they are not launched. Openship will move to MIT in the near future as well.