Hex.pm is adding private packages and organizations

[OvermindDL1]

@dimitarvp

Don’t quote me on this, but historically the open-source community has been quite good in isolating the software authors who ask money from you if you sneeze.

The Elixir community is stable and the people who join it are believing converts (me included). There’s no way Hex isolates that community. Furthermore, I am convinced there are people in this forum who’d donate hard cash to Hex if it has trouble with its hosting expenses – and I am one of them.

As Jose said, it’s fully within the right of someone to sell their software – I’d go a different way, like pre-packaging my app and signing it with the keys of the customer, but let’s not go off-topic.

I’d donate hosting to them in a heartbeat (my actual money is… low… very low…). ^.^

And I have no issue with someone selling their software in the usual areas where things are sold (their website, amazon, etc…), but not selling them via an open package repository. The only times I’ve seen that start to be allowed did not end well (in one case I was close in the entire ecosystem locked up, there is not an open source thing left, in the other case I was close in it became… loud, eventually the parent company who had no stakes in the open source parts had to very heavily handed shut down the ones trying to lock out what was happening behind paywalls, this one ended well but only because there was a very legal reason to not allow what they were doing).