After the change in October - they only require registration if you want to read the "Partner" blog post where the partner wants to earn money. They realised how damaging the previous approach was and withdrew.
And yeah we can support both. ASF and Apache 2.0 are commercially friendly and I believe this is part of their success :). I am personally not a big fan of copy-left licenses - not everyone has to be open-source. It's great if they do, but this is not the only business model. If Medium wants to make money on free stuff - this is great as long as free articles are free. I am happy they found a way to build a business model that works for them and at the same time people who want to share for free can do it without obligations and limitation of their readership. My personal opinion is that earning money is a good thing (if you are not exploiting others). They can employ people and pay them, and they pay taxes eventually. While I think their previous model when they chose which articles were put behind paywall was a bad idea (and I withdrew my subscription when they introduced it), they realised that and changed back to be good citizens (mainly because they saw how damaging it is to them I believe). And I think Medium's reach, popularity and discoverability (and position in search engines) are far bigger than dev.to. I believe there is nothing wrong with promoting both and let the author's choose which "medium" (!) they choose rather than force them to use one. We can add others as well (if we find there are other popular ones) - the more, the merrier. It costs us nothing but a short discussion :) J. On Sun, Feb 21, 2021 at 1:22 PM Abdur-Rahmaan Janhangeer < [email protected]> wrote: > Greetings, > > One last thing (i promise) is that dev.to is powered by > OpenSource. They Open Sourced their software called > <https://github.com/forem/forem> > Forem <https://github.com/forem/forem>. Since this is Open Source well ^^ > > Kind Regards, > > Abdur-Rahmaan Janhangeer > about <https://compileralchemy.github.io/> | blog > <https://www.pythonkitchen.com> > github <https://github.com/Abdur-RahmaanJ> > Mauritius > -- +48 660 796 129
