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> On the flip side I think it's fair that if they have many of these large customers with more than $25 million in turn over not contributing that they do pay f
by hodgesrm 4y ago
> On the flip side I think it's fair that if they have many of these large customers with more than $25 million in turn over not contributing that they do pay for the software development.
Do you mean for every single OSS project? Have a look at the dependency graph for a typical React project or anything built with Maven. Charging for this is unworkable. The collaborative work on which open source is based would collapse.
Just as a concrete example, ClickHouse incorporates something like 97 other software packages in contrib ranging from NuRaft to zstd. ClickHouse in its current form is only possible if those packages remain free.