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Fair Source licensing is the worst thing to happen to open source-definitely ma
Fair Source attempts to bastardize open source to ensure companies get paid.
In short, Fair Source is the worst of all words, because it introduces unnecessary complexity into the licensing process, none of which is intended to benefit developers. Imagine a developer telling her boss, "Yes, we're going to totally use this software until our product is popular and then we'll rip out essential pieces of code and replace them." As Redmonk analyst Stephen O'Grady correctly points out, "sales of software generally have been on a downward trajectory over the past decade or more."
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