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At the centre An open source project’s trademarks must be defended, and that defence is separate from the software’s licence. Holds MMMatt Mullenweg Read this korrent →

• Same subject: open source A business making hundreds of millions from an open source project owes it money or contribution, and can be refused its trademarks if it gives neither. Holds MMMatt Mullenweg
• Same subject: open source A company that will not accept a project’s terms is free to go and use a more permissive project instead. Holds MMMatt Mullenweg
• Same subject: open source A few hundred dollars a month is nothing to a company and transformative to a project, so engineers should be the ones asking their employers to pay it. Holds DDDrew DeVault
• Same subject: open source A licence is only the floor of open source; what keeps a project alive is an ethos of contribution that no licence can compel. Holds MMMatt Mullenweg
• Same subject: open source A proprietary language licensed from Microsoft had zero chance in the JavaScript ecosystem: TypeScript had to be open source or nobody would come. Holds AHAnders Hejlsberg
• Same subject: open source Agent-written pull requests already outclass those of the median human contributor to an open source project. Holds DHDavid Heinemeier Hansson
• Same subject: open source AI coding agents advance open source's founding goal by letting far more people modify software, so barring AI-assisted contributions protects a guild rather than the mission. Holds DHDavid Heinemeier Hansson
• Same subject: open source All you need to build a business today is free open source software, a VPS, an AI API and S3-style file hosting. Holds PLPieter Levels