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?

  • asret@lemmy.zip
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    10 months ago

    The ability to modify the code is a central tenet of free software. The GPL takes care of making those modifications available to others. That effectively is the payment the original devs get.

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      10 months ago

      My point was that the selling of others’ code is NOT part of the agreement. For that, the volunteers deserve payment. Technically, it’s a violation of the GPL to modify the code, and distribute binaries of it without the source. Companies get away with that all the time.