Thoughts on Post-Open Source?
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theregister.com
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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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.
That still sounds like a lot of confusion for small companies. especially given most FOSS is provided as-is without any legal consultant avaliable.
It's also against the very idea of software freedoms in the first place. This is just reinventing proprietary licenses.