We had users complain about migrating to MS Teams as the text part of it is almost entirely a piece of shit that every competitor does orders of magnitude better but management said "fuck it, we're migrating regardless", throwing oh-so-great arguments like "our customers also use it"
Only if you're extremely dishonest in comparisions.
Checklists at its core is just a list of common/required actions grouped in a list to don't forget during routine tasks. There is nothing limiting here, it is just a tool to aid repetitive/rare/complex tasks.
> IMO a permissive license is better and easier for the developer and the GPL is better for the end user.
users don't care, they aint taking the code for changing.
Arguably it also doesn't matter till you are corporation closing the code for profit. If all you do is OSS and are used by people that also release OSS, extra protection GPL gives are not useful. But of course real world is not that idealistic.
And for that of course BSD/MIT is better. No facility for anyone to get anything out of you so you can take and take without ever giving back aside from occasional bug report and outrage over someone having a bug they didn't fix in project they are not paid to develop in the first place
GPL gives one guarantee - that the code you give will not be closed down for money and used to save some corporation some dev-hours. Some devs don't like it because it is making their life difficult (and I'd also argue anything higher than LGPL for stuff like libraries is kinda pointless), but that's kinda the point.
Like, how is even say a single developer of mildly popular lib doing one thing gonna setup financing ? Or get people to pay ? Anything from patreon to tips was tried to mild results at best
> First of all, it's been sustainable for a long time -- what changed?
Big failures like OpenSSL fiasco happened - where sure, company was sustainable but due to skewed priorities coz of funding (companies that founded it founded features that from perspective of any other company were bloat, and not enough work went into modernizing the code) the code was shit and full of traps.
And it's still a fact that vast majority of developers of stuff used everywhere wouldn't be able to do it as full or even part time job for financial reasons.
All while the corporate is pushing same "BSD/MIT good, GPL bad" agenda, coz they don't need to contribute anything back to stuff they take