I know the phrase. How is Medium going to extinguish Mastodon is what I’m asking. For someone to EEE, they’ll have to own it first. Mastodon is still an independent organization.
Ah, there’s the disconnect between us. You don’t have to own something to EEE, that’s the thing. You can just use the existing code, make some proprietary modifications to it (implement cool new features, so, a soft fork without contributing back) so the users come to your site to use it.
They just have to become so popular that people who didn’t join a Mastodon server because it’s open source, but because it’s an alternative to something else (Medium? Twitter?) join Medium to hurt the Mastodon ecosystem.
You’re right that you can’t properly “extinguish” a FOSS project like that in a sense that you can’t develop it any further, but maybe some people lose interest in and stop their engagement with Mastodon when they see Medium “sell” code they wrote or other stuff they did.
I know the phrase. How is Medium going to extinguish Mastodon is what I’m asking. For someone to EEE, they’ll have to own it first. Mastodon is still an independent organization.
Ah, there’s the disconnect between us. You don’t have to own something to EEE, that’s the thing. You can just use the existing code, make some proprietary modifications to it (implement cool new features, so, a soft fork without contributing back) so the users come to your site to use it.
They just have to become so popular that people who didn’t join a Mastodon server because it’s open source, but because it’s an alternative to something else (Medium? Twitter?) join Medium to hurt the Mastodon ecosystem.
You’re right that you can’t properly “extinguish” a FOSS project like that in a sense that you can’t develop it any further, but maybe some people lose interest in and stop their engagement with Mastodon when they see Medium “sell” code they wrote or other stuff they did.