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I think the "root" of the problem goes to what is the purpose of Open Source ? I see a lot of VC Funded founder convinced what Open Source should make their business model easy, hence licenses such such as SSPL should be called Open Source.

I believe Open Source is about software users and maximizing their freedom, which among other things choice of truly independent vendors in all circumstances, as such non compete licenses as SSPL are not

Are they better than Oracle-like proprietary licenses ? Of course! but they are not Open Source



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