Sustainable open source will stay a dream

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[–] 5 points 2 years ago (1 child)

This is why I'm thinking the almost religious ideal of "free to everyone for anything" is probably a mistake, because there's a lot of FOSS software being used by corporations for evil things like shareholder profits.

We need to start licensing things under a "free for humans, insultingly expensive for corporations" model. "My code is free for private citizens, sole proprietorships, small businesses, charities, students, etc. and $900,000,000,000 per minute per seat for any organization with stock that is traded on an exchange."

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  • [–] 5 points 2 years ago

    The problem with this is loopholes.

    What's to stop a parent company from starting a private sub company for IT needs and contract out the work?

    BAM there goes the anti stock thing.

    I say free for personal/private use but not for commercial would be a better license.

    Costs are dumb cheap for single seat but increases as seats goes up.

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