Eric Schultz

Hey, FOSS folks who haven't really taken a side when it comes to DHH and Omacom!

Do you think it's good for the future of FOSS for the founder of the most funded FOSS foundation ever to consider source-available licenses "open source"?

Check out the wording on this page of example Rails applications from the Rails Foundation. https://rubyonrails.org/docs/reference-apps

Now look at the Fizzy project from DHH's company at the bottom and its license https://github.com/basecamp/fizzy

Now look at this comment: https://github.com/basecamp/fizzy/pull/2039#issuecomment-3635737114

"DHH: I don't acknowledge the supremacy of OSI's narrow definition of Open Source being the definitive word on "open source""

Hey, team FOSS who are being quiet: is it good for FOSS to have a vindictive, fascist social media star who has illustrated that he doesn't respect the OSD to have a Foundation worth $18 million to do his bidding?

Because he's coming for you whether you like it or not. He will destroy every last shred of value that FOSS has given us. He has more money than you, he has more connections.

If you don't stop him now, this will be the end of FOSS.

Linux Foundation is trying to get OSI to approve a new license for "open" models. The license has a copyright retaliation clause that says you lose the right to use the model if you assert the model violates your copyright. 😂

It's basically an amnesty for big model creators before courts actually settle this dispute.

https://lists.opensource.org/pipermail/license-review_lists.opensource.org/2026-August/006135.html

Edit - cc: @osi @linuxfoundation

@ErikUden I like that they used the GitHub project name generator 😂