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Wouldn't it be a good idea if they would change their licensing so that commercial usage allowed them to build a stable income stream and pay more and more deve
by softwarelimits 10y ago
Wouldn't it be a good idea if they would change their licensing so that commercial usage allowed them to build a stable income stream and pay more and more developers every year? Also it would be very important to build developer schools and other educational facilities to sustain development in future, what would be much easier with a stable and growing budget.
- 4ad 10y agoLet me guess... You have no idea why people chose to use, or contribute to FreeBSD, right? Especially no idea why commercial entities build products based on FreeBSD. Sometimes there's a cultural disconnect between the hacker news world and some $FOO software thing (FSF, GNU, what have you), but this tops them all. Developer schools? Was this even a serious comment or was I trolled by Poe's law?
- softwarelimits 10y agoI was not able to find any answer to my question in your comment. I assume you assume the wrong things, also you seem to draw conclusions too fast.
- vog 10y agoI think you received a perfectly valid answer. It was not a direct answer, but since the presupposition of your question is so deeply flawed, a direct answer is simply impossible. However, the answer could have been more detailed and less ranting about HN. Maybe the answer could be improved to: Things work completely different there. In particular, there are already people and companies making money with selling FreeBSD, and these are also contributing back a lot to FreeBSD. They are contributing back for moral reasons, pragmatic reasons or simply because they like FreeBSD, even though (and sometimes exactly because) they are not pushed to do so by the license.
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