This is why I'm thinking the almost religious ideal of "free to everyone for anything" is probably a mistake, because there's a lot of FOSS software being used by corporations for evil things like shareholder profits.

We need to start licensing things under a "free for humans, insultingly expensive for corporations" model. "My code is free for private citizens, sole proprietorships, small businesses, charities, students, etc. and $900,000,000,000 per minute per seat for any organization with stock that is traded on an exchange."

[–] Landless2029@lemmy.world 5 points 5 months ago

The problem with this is loopholes.

What's to stop a parent company from starting a private sub company for IT needs and contract out the work?

BAM there goes the anti stock thing.

I say free for personal/private use but not for commercial would be a better license.

Costs are dumb cheap for single seat but increases as seats goes up.