I understand that being a fork of Snowplow is how you define yourself, but there's actually nothing on the webpage that provides any detail of what the product does, other than "event pipeline" right up the top.
I suggest putting at least some content on the website about what you do so that people can find you when looking for solutions in the industry, rather than having them adopt Snowplow and then splinter off later. I understand that your main focus is snowcatcloud.com which does have info putting some on opensnowcat.io will greatly enhance its discoverability.
Especially as the splinter strategy is going to become increasingly harder as people who care about open source won't adopt Snowplow to begin with, and people who don't care won't leave it.
Every time I see a bait and switch like this, I'm thinking for myself "well, this could have been easily covered by AGPL...if they were actually interested in keeping it Open Source".
Oftentimes the company is worried about not being able to make revenue by providing hosted services, which is fair and I understand it. But please if you do this, don't do a bait and switch like this. Relicense it as AGPL which covers hosted services just the same as GPL would cover binary builds.
Anyways, thank you very much for this. As a former early adopter of snowplow in my infrastructure I really appreciate the fork and its new life!
I genuinely thought software.com was like a lorem ipsum placeholder (particularly in the context of the other two being blank). Went to the site ... it feels even more like a fake company. There is so much here but it all feels like an empty shell?
Yes, I guess I've been so deep I never worked on actually making that clear. I'm working on adding a section about it with specific use cases! Thank you!
I suggest putting at least some content on the website about what you do so that people can find you when looking for solutions in the industry, rather than having them adopt Snowplow and then splinter off later. I understand that your main focus is snowcatcloud.com which does have info putting some on opensnowcat.io will greatly enhance its discoverability.
Especially as the splinter strategy is going to become increasingly harder as people who care about open source won't adopt Snowplow to begin with, and people who don't care won't leave it.
Oftentimes the company is worried about not being able to make revenue by providing hosted services, which is fair and I understand it. But please if you do this, don't do a bait and switch like this. Relicense it as AGPL which covers hosted services just the same as GPL would cover binary builds.
Anyways, thank you very much for this. As a former early adopter of snowplow in my infrastructure I really appreciate the fork and its new life!
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