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0 pointskragen1y ago0 comments

even then you've had five years notice that enshittification was coming: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CockroachDB#History

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cvwright1y ago

Making $10M ARR companies pay for the software that they use is not enshittification.

nijave1y ago

$10M ARR doesn't mean anything. You could still be a tiny company with terrible financials by selling your product at a loss (a startup)

It's just an arbitrary number

kragenOP1y ago

i mean, yes? it is? software you can't use without someone else's permission is obviously shittier than open-source software you can fork, even if you're a big company. perhaps especially if you're a big company. and software that sends telemetry to the vendor is obviously shittier than software that doesn't

redwood1y ago

Well if the company can build a business then you can get great software to use... while in theory it would be great if a bunch of incredible software were done purely in the spirit of community open source, in practice that's pretty limited

CyberDildonics1y ago

i mean, no? it isn't? changing the license doesn't change the software? the software still works the same way?

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