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Maybe software should be payed for per second usage? Implemented as a charge added to cloud usage costs. Terms of use and terms of agreement machine readable
by philipswood 8y ago
Maybe software should be payed for per second usage?
Implemented as a charge added to cloud usage costs.
Terms of use and terms of agreement machine readable and included in public available source code.
Code publically available, publically built and cryptographically tagged by usage and licensing Metadata. Like a smart contract.
Anyone who used the code would automatically be billed by the cloud provider on the license holder behalf.
This would align incentives better and enforce the openness of the source as a byproduct.
(the licensing should ideally be built into the platform, which should be vendor neutral, e.g. K8s and maybe the license could waive cost collection for self hosted use on own hardware)