Obviously we all want to avoid enshittified (aggressively monetized) software or at least get our money’s worth. I’m looking at self-hosting software right now and one I’m looking has a pricing page but only for cloud (no other paywalled features) and is open source. I tried looking up future plans and didn’t find much, so it doesn’t seem like it will enshittify. (not related) I had thought about switching to Omnivore for a long time but then they merged with ElevenLabs and the rest is history.

  • teri@discuss.tchncs.de
    15·
    4 hours ago

    Green flags:

    • copyleft license (GPL or better AGPL) + they accept contributions without contributor license agreement
    • code written by many people who personally own the copyright
    • active community

    Yellow flags:

    • permissive license
    • business model which can’t be really be sustainable with a shit-free product

    Red flags:

    • VC funding (implies enshittification in future because of profit maximization)
    • proprietary license
    • project does not take contribution from the outside or asks to transfer copyright or sign some document (CLA)