15 Mar
2023
15 Mar
'23
1:26 a.m.
On Mar 14, 2023, at 2:55 PM, Jim Brain via cctalk <cctalk(a)classiccmp.org> wrote:
On 3/14/2023 4:16 PM, Jonathan Chapman wrote:
If you posted your design as Open Source, someone else producing it isn't a knockoff,
it's the system working as intended.
-- Chris
There are other things that we've chosen not
to run for the same basic reason, and others that won't get open sourced.
I will admit I am trending in that direction. I put things as FLOSS because I wanted the
designs to outlast my involvement with the community. I thought if the design was open
source and I wanted to or had to depart (including the Great Departure), the designs would
continue to be available rather than disappear. But, so many people have abused that idea.
Luckily, most of my stuff is not useful enough to copy and sell online...