Open Source, SaaS and Monetization
&gt; Open Source is pretty clear cut: it does not discriminate. If you get the source, you can do with it what you want (within the terms of the license) and no matter who you are (within the terms of the license). However as Open Source is defined — and also how I see it — Open Source comes with no strings attached. The moment we restrict what you can do with it — like not compete — it becomes something else.<p>I appreciate this distinction. I don&#x27;t have anything against a company updating its licenses to remain profitable, as long as they&#x27;re up-front about what they&#x27;re doing.<p>My only complaint about licenses of this nature has been when businesses try to use them to argue that they&#x27;re still Open Source in spirit, or that the restrictions are just technicalities that everyone should ignore, or that Open Source is doomed and they&#x27;re here to save everyone.<p>Not everything needs to be Open Source, but Open Source should mean something.