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This cURL is just a single example, and as Daniel is Swedish then that would be on Sweden to introduce such levy and pay it out to him. But as other example if
by ozim 5y ago
This cURL is just a single example, and as Daniel is Swedish then that would be on Sweden to introduce such levy and pay it out to him.
But as other example if someone would be US national and contributed to OpenSSL project, he should get some payment for that.
This would possibly fix quite some issues with OSS funding and contributors burnout. Because there are real examples of big corporations taking advantage of open source code without paying anything. Unfortunately OSS contributors are quite small group so their votes are not something that would make government take them seriously. But their work is proven to be important for society and that should be taken into consideration.
- pjc50 5y ago> as Daniel is Swedish then that would be on Sweden to introduce such levy and pay it out to him. That just makes the situation even worse; it would be painted (with some justification) as wrecking the Swedish domestic software industry.
- ozim 5y agoHow can someone justify: "We are going to tax Microsoft, Apple an Google for using Open Source software created by Swedish developers and pay money collected to those developers" as "wrecking the Swedish domestic software industry"? I would say it would make more Swedish people interested in writing software and getting back value that BigCorps are stealing from Sweden.