On Mar 14, 2023, at 2:55 PM, Jim Brain via cctalk <cctalk@classiccmp.org> wrote: > > On 3/14/2023 4:16 PM, Jonathan Chapman wrote: >> There are other things that we've chosen not to run for the same basic >> reason, and others that won't get open sourced. > > I will admit I am trending in that direction. I put things as FLOSS because > I wanted the designs to outlast my involvement with the community. I thought > if the design was open source and I wanted to or had to depart (including the > Great Departure), the designs would continue to be available rather than > disappear. But, so many people have abused that idea. Luckily, most of my > stuff is not useful enough to copy and sell online...
If you posted your design as Open Source, someone else producing it isn't a knockoff, it's the system working as intended. -- Chris