https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Embrace,_extend,_and_extinguis...
?
They've since moved on to the SSS strategy: Ship, Slip, Slop.
Who cares if it's OSI-approved or not, a line saying "M$, Google, and the like need written permission for every use case" would help to make those leeches honest. Just learn from the JSLint example.
plus n-word dot com hosts information about the plus n-word license which purports:
- The software will not be used or hosted by western corporations that promote censorship
- The software will not be used or hosted by compromised individuals that promote censorship
- Users of the software will be immune to attacks that would result in censorship of others
That would be both hilarious and horrifying if the only thing stopping the corporate dystopia is that Microsoft doesn't want to say the N word.
Valkey is better because all of the new development work happens on Valkey, not because of the license. If the actual developer changed the license, that would be a different situation.
In digital services there's no such thing. There's only a damned corporation employing idiots who don't care about community.
But yes, there's a lot of critical single maintainer projects.
It's outrageous. MS is simply enforcing some Government crackdown on encryption software that would interfere with backdoors.