Ruff: Restricting open-source licenses to prevent commercial competition fails
Nithya Ruff · The Future of AI, Open Source, and Enterprise SaaS with Databricks CEO Ali Ghodsi · Dec 7, 2021 · at 20:57
Nithya Ruff, Chair of the Linux Foundation Board, discusses the strategic failure of restrictive licensing pivots among commercial open-source companies.
“You know, you can't really play with licenses and expect to win. It, I, what I've seen is it doesn't work. People just don't like the fact that you have, you know polluted a license or you're not setting the right expectations. You have to innovate and you have to deliver services on the cloud.”
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