have we seen examples of such behaviour from valve yet? i don’t think they’re without fault, but worrying about shutting down their open source developments has no basis imo
I don’t trust any corporation to keep their open source projects completely open forever. As soon as profits dip they’ll start looking at open source as a missed opportunity to squeeze more money out of users. Look at, oh I don’t know, Reddit, Android, VSCode, Redis, MongoDB, Sentry, Draw.io, Elastic, Hashi, CentOS, and especially OpenAI. Remember, they own the IPs, they can switch licenses at will and take all the community contributions with it. And it’s not always as overt as making the whole thing proprietary all at once. They’ll slowly start introducing proprietary components until the open source part is basically useless without them.
maybe if they go public, the shareholders would pressure them, but until then, they are doing well enough, by any standard, to just keep going as they were
have we seen examples of such behaviour from valve yet? i don’t think they’re without fault, but worrying about shutting down their open source developments has no basis imo
I don’t trust any corporation to keep their open source projects completely open forever. As soon as profits dip they’ll start looking at open source as a missed opportunity to squeeze more money out of users. Look at, oh I don’t know, Reddit, Android, VSCode, Redis, MongoDB, Sentry, Draw.io, Elastic, Hashi, CentOS, and especially OpenAI. Remember, they own the IPs, they can switch licenses at will and take all the community contributions with it. And it’s not always as overt as making the whole thing proprietary all at once. They’ll slowly start introducing proprietary components until the open source part is basically useless without them.
maybe if they go public, the shareholders would pressure them, but until then, they are doing well enough, by any standard, to just keep going as they were