2 ms·
I agree to some degree, but I don't think an open source economy is fundamentally opposite Libre/FSF style objectives, in that they are not opposed to people ge
by angry_octet 7y ago
I agree to some degree, but I don't think an open source economy is fundamentally opposite Libre/FSF style objectives, in that they are not opposed to people getting paid for their efforts, but that binary only distribution and restrictive licencing are bad in a variety of ways.
If we consider a company like Oracle, which seems antithetical to open source principles on many levels, it would be possible to treat them as an open source debtor. Transactions between Oracle and open source economy participants would incur a tax, making their products less competitive with others, until they started contributing or bought open source offset credits. This provides the dual benefits of funding open source and penalising non-sharing. Things that really cost companies nothing, like publishing their Android patches, become valuable, and keeping them private becomes a cost.