Pretty interesting tool in my opinion. Seems to bring some fresh ideas (as expected from this company), it’s lightweight and fast. A bit unexpected also that it’s fully open-source.
Thanks for sharing this! I’ll probably use it for a couple personal projects I’ve been putting off forever…I had tried using Trello but it seemed too bloated. 1000 cards for free should be plenty...
Thanks for sharing this! I’ll probably use it for a couple personal projects I’ve been putting off forever…I had tried using Trello but it seemed too bloated.
1000 cards for free should be plenty for a personal project.
Also a big fan of the license they’re putting it out with - basically a “open source but don’t directly compete with our SaaS product” seems fair enough to me. Sure, it’s not 100% in the spirit of truly open software, but I can’t really fault them too much for it.
I'd rather see the AGPL used for cases like this. It's the GPL, and fully FOSS (unlike this), but with the addition that making the software accessible over a network counts as distribution. So...
I'd rather see the AGPL used for cases like this. It's the GPL, and fully FOSS (unlike this), but with the addition that making the software accessible over a network counts as distribution. So you can't maintain a private fork with additional changes if you try to run a SaaS offering: any changes you make to the source must be made available.
That doesn’t really help. Take two main examples of where open source maintainers feel “sherlocked” by a bigger company. Amazon’s fork of elasticsearch is fully open source. WPEngine didn’t modify...
That doesn’t really help. Take two main examples of where open source maintainers feel “sherlocked” by a bigger company. Amazon’s fork of elasticsearch is fully open source. WPEngine didn’t modify WP to begin with.
In both cases, what the authors were afraid of is that another company competes directly with them with their own product. In Amazon’s case, their platform just has more scale, and they can bundle it in with AWS to make a package that’s hard for an independent company to beat on price, even if they upstream all changes they make.
Some release blog posts by 37signals:
https://world.hey.com/dhh/fizzy-is-our-fun-modern-take-on-kanban-and-we-made-it-open-source-54ac41b6
https://world.hey.com/jason/introducing-fizzy-our-newest-product-83a4144f
Pretty interesting tool in my opinion. Seems to bring some fresh ideas (as expected from this company), it’s lightweight and fast. A bit unexpected also that it’s fully open-source.
Thanks for sharing this! I’ll probably use it for a couple personal projects I’ve been putting off forever…I had tried using Trello but it seemed too bloated.
1000 cards for free should be plenty for a personal project.
Also a big fan of the license they’re putting it out with - basically a “open source but don’t directly compete with our SaaS product” seems fair enough to me. Sure, it’s not 100% in the spirit of truly open software, but I can’t really fault them too much for it.
I'd rather see the AGPL used for cases like this. It's the GPL, and fully FOSS (unlike this), but with the addition that making the software accessible over a network counts as distribution. So you can't maintain a private fork with additional changes if you try to run a SaaS offering: any changes you make to the source must be made available.
That doesn’t really help. Take two main examples of where open source maintainers feel “sherlocked” by a bigger company. Amazon’s fork of elasticsearch is fully open source. WPEngine didn’t modify WP to begin with.
In both cases, what the authors were afraid of is that another company competes directly with them with their own product. In Amazon’s case, their platform just has more scale, and they can bundle it in with AWS to make a package that’s hard for an independent company to beat on price, even if they upstream all changes they make.