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

submitted 10 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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[–] filister@lemmy.world 31 points 10 months ago

All the people predicting doom and gloom for open source, but the reality is that without open source we wouldn't be in the position where we currently are in terms of technology.

To be honest, I also think the patent system should be revamped as it is extremely flawed at the moment and prone to abuse by patent trolls, and it is stifling innovation.