This. Technically it's not "open fucking source" but overall you're right; honestly these arguments often ignore the spirit of the open source ethos. The source code is available. It's not a coincidence that these non-foss node systems have the much more ambitious goal of creating a general purpose server application platform, which is awesome and in fact is critically important for the future of free computing. It's a lucrative platform that can easily be hijacked, so they need to use a different license. It's fine. I love GPL, I love MIT, but we shouldn't limit ourselves to using only these "technically FOSS" tools in our current complex adversarial environment.
This. Technically it's not "open fucking source" but overall you're right; honestly these arguments often ignore the spirit of the open source ethos. The source code is available. It's not a coincidence that these non-foss node systems have the much more ambitious goal of creating a general purpose server application platform, which is awesome and in fact is critically important for the future of free computing. It's a lucrative platform that can easily be hijacked, so they need to use a different license. It's fine. I love GPL, I love MIT, but we shouldn't limit ourselves to using only these "technically FOSS" tools in our current complex adversarial environment.