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Bruce Perens Emits Draft Post-Open Zero Cost License
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this post was submitted on 01 May 2024
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The key idea from the article is --
...Companies making more than $5 million annually by using Post-Open software in a paid-for product would be required to pay 1 percent of their revenue back to this administrative organization, which would distribute the funds to the maintainers of the participating open source project(s). That would cover all Post-Open software used by the organization.
Nice idea but the chances of that happening is close to zero.
If you take the top 10000 companies around the world that use some open source software and count the amount of full time employees that contribute with code to open source projects I would be extremely surprised if you would reach 10000 contributers in total.
I love the philosophy behind open source but business people doesn't understand why it's valuable for them to have additional cost associated with "employees helping competitors".
Business people are the ones pulling the strings in the corporate world.