A tale as old as time

In case some people are confused by or misreading the headline: “Axel Springer” is the name of the publishing house founded by Axel Springer, but he has been dead for 40 years now. So the title refers to the publisher, not the man.

This is contrary to OSS definitions.

Yes, that’s why I added ‘personally’.

Personally I make a distinction between open source and free (as in freedom) software. Free software is open source but open source software isn’t necessarily free.

I can check and validate the open source software that these fremium devs provide but it isn’t free. The premium part they offer is neither open source nor free.

No backup, no mercy.

I am using PassAndroid

Most of the time these ‘Add to X Wallet’ buttons lead you to an .pkpass File which you can import. The app doesn’t look very nice but it does the job for me.

Issue #1113 by any chance? :D

Not necessarily a phishing mail. I got tagged in an issue that some idiot created and codeberg dutifully sent me a mail notification.

No, you are not. People regularly equate Git and GitHub, though.

Sounds good to me.

Had another job where my task was to maintain Perl scripts from the 90s. The company was crap, though, so I only stayed for half a year.

Bold of you to assume I don’t hate PHP already.

PHP Developer here: Give me your worst!

During university I gave additional lessons for lower semesters and at times had to juggle three languages: Java, Typescript and plain JavaScript for that one professor who thought TS sucks.

Coding on the spot got really messy at times.

Which alternatives do you recommend?

*furiously waves book around*

Wikipedia

TL;DR: A permissive license allows doing almost everything, including turning the code into proprietary products.