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There has been a lot of talk about companies and individuals adopting licenses that aren't OSI opensource to protect themselves from mega-corp leechers. Developers have also been condemned who put donation notices in the command-line or during package installation. Projects with opensource cores and paid extensions have also been targets of vitriol.

So, let's say we wanted to make it possible for the majority of developers to work on software that strictly follows the definition of opensource, which models would be acceptable to make enough money to work on those projects full-time?

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[-] django@discuss.tchncs.de 49 points 1 month ago
[-] Telorand@reddthat.com 26 points 1 month ago

The best solution for a lot of problems. Imagine how awesome OSS could be if any dev could work on it at least part-time while still being able to eat and pay rent/mortgage.

[-] GammaGames@beehaw.org 17 points 1 month ago

Imagine how awesome any creative field could be

[-] onlinepersona@programming.dev 2 points 1 month ago

I'm for it but what do we do in the meantime?

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this post was submitted on 06 May 2024
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