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> "Situations like this make me wonder why no one has created an open source license with a clause excluding multi billion dollar companies." People start look
by ThrowawayR2 6y ago
> "Situations like this make me wonder why no one has created an open source license with a clause excluding multi billion dollar companies."
People start looking at things differently when they're asked to pay for them and they start comparison shopping. Would people pay for LibreOffice over MS Office? Would people pay for GIMP over Photoshop? Some would, most wouldn't. It would kill corporate adoption of FOSS and, since most FOSS development is done by people employed by corporations, that would shrink the userbase and reduce the sustainability of FOSS.