In this case it's kind of unbelievable how quickly the flip happened. Their 'manifesto'[0] was published only at the start of the year, where they vowed to be an incorruptible bastion of stability in a selfish society focused on short-term thinking. They want Bear to be around in 50 years.

Then in the last couple weeks or so[1] it seems they saw a bit of a spike, and immediately pulled up the ladder.

They even criticised this sort of behaviour in their manifesto:

>We've seen our fair share of open-source projects become sour (see the recent Wordpress drama) or abandoned entirely. We've seen OpenAI become ClosedAI. There's a common thread here. Trust isn't just a legal structure, but a social contract.

I am actually totally in favor of source available licenses, but in this case it seems counter to all the boasts the developer has made about their platform.[2]

[0]: https://herman.bearblog.dev/manifesto/ [1]: https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?date=today%205-y&q=... [2]: https://herman.bearblog.dev/building-software-to-last-foreve...

ironically, Wordpress is still licensed under the GPL even after the kerfuffle.

I guess Herman cried to his friends for help now. Pathetic.

Your evidence is solid, after all, it was the same guy who wrote that just a few months ago.

That post might be gone soon, "smaht" people are inclined to rewrite history to fit their current mood.