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> Who do you think a "regular dev" is? Someone who's not employed by a fortune 500 company, probably the 99% of devs?

• solatic 6y ago
  Why is it evil for a large company making a large profit to exploit your free work, but not a small company making a small profit? They're both benefitting from work you're doing without paying you. Personally I don't see an qualitative difference, just one of degree. Like I said, go ahead and offer free commercial licenses to small companies, who in your estimation are 99% of developers.
  • pietrovismara 6y ago
    Because a small company, by definition, doesn't earn millions and usually has very small margins (if none, if they're still in the startup phase). A large company can definitely afford to contribute more. > Like I said, go ahead and offer free commercial licenses to small companies, who in your estimation are 99% of developers. Offering commercial licenses adds a lot of work on top of the already difficult development of OSS projects. I don't understand why you think that the situation can be fixed using existing solutions, when the problem arised with these solutions already in place. Perhaps we need something different?? Edit: I also completely reject the notion that everything should be commercialized. OSS is the antithesis of this. Down with commercial licenses, down with rich capitalists exploting people's voluntary work.