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Thoughts on Post-Open Source? (www.theregister.com)

submitted 10 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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TLDR: Companies should be required to pay developers for any open source software they use.

He imagines a simple yearly compliance process that gets companies all the rights they need to use Post-Open software. And they'd fund developers who would be encouraged to write software that's usable by the common person, as opposed to technical experts.

It's an interesting concept, but I don't really see any feasible means to get this to kick off.

What are your thoughts on it?

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[–] [email protected] 26 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)

Fuck no. A small business that is struggling to survive should be able to use WordPress for their website and Linux for their laptops without paying

[–] [email protected] 10 points 10 months ago (1 children)

The fee could be really small but scale depending on factors like business size. Or there could be no fee outright for businesses smaller than a certain size.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 10 months ago (1 children)

That still sounds like a lot of confusion for small companies. especially given most FOSS is provided as-is without any legal consultant avaliable.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 10 months ago

It's also against the very idea of software freedoms in the first place. This is just reinventing proprietary licenses.