<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@whitequark" class="u-url mention">@<span>whitequark</span></a></span> Wouldn&#39;t the AGPL work against this by forcing them to not use anything contributed to the free version in their proprietary one?</p><p>Assuming of course that they aren&#39;t a shit project with copyright reassignments or CLAs, of course. But that&#39;s a clear warning flag to anyone to not bother contributing.</p>

<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@whitequark" class="u-url mention">@<span>whitequark</span></a></span> just contribute as GPL/AGPL and they need to provide their own code as GPL/AGPL even if they sell it.</p><p>Of course that changes if you sign a CLA but only suckers sign CLAs.</p>

<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@whitequark" class="u-url mention">@<span>whitequark</span></a></span> they have their own propriety enterprise license for all element products next to the AGPL, which would be fine in theory but Synapse Pro, rewriting Synapse parts in rust, is what happens in practice :/</p>

<p>it&#39;s a transparent (and often successul) attempt to exploit unpaid labor by attracting people who want to improve the commons with the &quot;open source&quot; label and then selling the work they contribute, or using it to fundraise</p>

<p>it disgusts me when companies make &quot;community [project]&quot; mean &quot;a shitty useless version of proprietary [project] we actually care about&quot;</p><p>it also disgusts me that AGPL mostly enables that</p>

<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://chaos.social/@gsuberland" class="u-url mention">@<span>gsuberland</span></a></span> horrifying</p>

<p>the business model of element evidently is &quot;write shitty code then extract rent from governments and cops to make it less shitty&quot;</p><p>is there any wonder it&#39;s as bad as it is</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/@jmc@unix.house/113857053433007481" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">mastodon.social/@jmc@unix.hous</span><span class="invisible">e/113857053433007481</span></a></p>

<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://chaos.social/@gsuberland" class="u-url mention">@<span>gsuberland</span></a></span> linky?</p>

<p>chuckling at hyperspace pirate accidentally constructing a boost converter from parasitics and the mechanical bouncing of a large switch</p>