Vates spun up xcp-ng off the xen hypervisor and a great “vsphere” like management plane called xen orchestra. Its a fantastic hypervisor with vsan/built in backups/etc.
They have gone from “a guy” to a 100 person company in the last few years while sticking by the FOSS ethic entirely. You can entirely build the project from source, or even grab a few github scripts that build it for you. They have always been open and clear about letting you build it however you like.
They know how to cut this abusive behaviour off. They are fully capable. They don’t want to use those tools, legal or technical, because it goes against the spirit of FOSS, even if it’s to stop someone else who is abusing the spirit of FOSS.
They have always been open and clear about letting you build it and use it however you like.
I don’t disagree with the want to license software like this. The downside then is a subset of “letting you build and use it any way you like” includes registering N trial accounts every 30 days. If this isn’t actually spelled out as illegal under the license, some jerkbag will do it. I wish we didn’t live in this world, but we do.
INeedMana@lemmy.world 10 months ago
I’m not convinced. It all started from a license saying “if you want to distribute your version, you have to license it the same”. One either plays by the rules or the modification doesn’t see the light of day. And at the time of publication, it was rather radical stance
Freedom sometimes has to be enforced
This is not a story about a company denying free trial to another company because the latter is big. It’s about the latter leeching resources from supporters who’s money go towards the fleet that serves their 4k VM “trial”
It is against the spirit of FOSS
mosiacmango@lemm.ee 10 months ago
Vates is pretty chill, as is clear in the article. I think you can argue the above clearly, but lets say that Vates likes the “vibe” of FOSS, and is willing to take it a bit on the chin to keep that energy internally. A bit of “turn the other cheek.”
Well, even Jesus started kicking ass at one point with the money lenders. It looks like they are getting there now.