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In 2019, multiple open source companies changed course–is it the right move?

• fauigerzigerk 7y ago
  >Through all the conversations I had with developers and founders in fact, one line kept coming back to me. System76 founder Carl Richell said it most explicitly: "If generosity isn't built into open source, it isn't going to work." I think some would like to see more targeted generosity so that the richest and biggest companies on the planet are not also the biggest beneficiaries of that generosity - especially if they are competitors. But that sort of targeting is difficult, because many of those who are not the biggest and richest sure want to be exactly that, and it's what they are telling their investors. I wonder if an OSI compliant open source license can be granted on a conditional basis. If your revenue is less than X you get to use the OSI liecense. Otherwise you have to buy a commercial license.