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I feel you that the current situation is not good, but nobody is forcing developers to share their projects as open-source or to use a license that is company-f
by paydevs 4y ago
I feel you that the current situation is not good, but nobody is forcing developers to share their projects as open-source or to use a license that is company-friendly. If the maintainer(s) do not want companies to profit from the OSS without giving back they could easily use a copyleft License (e.g., GPL) or switch to a closed-source approach.
And btw. it's not super easy for companies to contribute on a voluntary basis - their investors or stakeholders would not allow/like it. What they can do is declaring it as "donations" and paying it from the marketing budget.
- jen20 4y agoNothing stops companies profiting from GPL software. Red Hat built an entire company doing so.
- paulryanrogers 4y agoCiting one outlier does not disprove a rule of thumb.
- dgb23 4y agoWhich means they contribute.