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Thoughts on Post-Open Source? (www.theregister.com)
submitted 8 months ago by actual_patience@programming.dev to c/opensource@lemmy.ml
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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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[–] jaeme@lemmy.ml 3 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (1 children)

If companies are required to pay, then the software is not libre. I understand your intent, but this isn't a solution (even if it was, it would just mean that it would just be a tax for small companies, Meta and Alphabet aren't worrying about a tax), building a stronger community is.

Commercial software is not mutually exclusive with libre software, and things like copyleft exist to prevent companies from using libre software to create proprietary software.