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if only there was a way to make cloud providers charge a per second usage charge for software used... And an open source licence that could support that...
by philipswood 6y ago
if only there was a way to make cloud providers charge a per second usage charge for software used...
And an open source licence that could support that...
- dboreham 6y agoI've been thinking about this in my spare time for a while, under the working title "General Magic License"+. I think it's a good way (the only way) to reason about the whole "who pays for open source development?" problem. If you can define the terms of that license, and figure out how to get licensors to follow the terms, and copyright owners to license their code under it, then <boom>. Also it may be possible to prove the converse -- that it's impossible to define such a license. Then we can all get back to work on proprietary software, or at least know we're not going to get paid. +Yes, I know.