> > My personal thought is that we need a new kind of license: community open source. No corporations, just community.
> You are going exactly against the OSS philosophy.
GPL is almost that: community, because if you want to use it in a commercial product you have to make sources available, not to the community but to those who ask for it.
I'm of the opinion that open source is a business tool, and one should use a license that helps one achieve business goals. Those goals can be very personal and about career advancement, or they can be those of a trillion dollar corporation. TFA might benefit from using GPL if they are upset at what MSFT did, or they might work with MSFT to have their work integrated into the original to end the fork, or...
> You are going exactly against the OSS philosophy.
GPL is almost that: community, because if you want to use it in a commercial product you have to make sources available, not to the community but to those who ask for it.
I'm of the opinion that open source is a business tool, and one should use a license that helps one achieve business goals. Those goals can be very personal and about career advancement, or they can be those of a trillion dollar corporation. TFA might benefit from using GPL if they are upset at what MSFT did, or they might work with MSFT to have their work integrated into the original to end the fork, or...