Many commenters seems to state ah, if company makes $25M it can afford to pay. First, certain amount of revenue, even if it looks high for you, does not mean i

Many commenters seems to state ah, if company makes $25M it can afford to pay. First, certain amount of revenue, even if it looks high for you, does not mean it is able to pay ANY amount vendor require. Paying Oracle $50.000 per CPU Core to run Oracle (for 100s of thousands of CPU cores) would be steep even for Facebook/Meta This idea what there are those large evil companies do not contributes to Open Source, and there are same large VC funded copyright holders are just struggling to survive is quite wrong - it is not that simple and it is Open Source which is one of the ways which create balance of power Second, it is not about money. Having any restriction on who can use it makes it impractical for using as component of other Open Source software, which Is where I think Open Source power really shines. Check out this article for example https://flink.apache.org/news/2022/09/08/akka-license-change.html https://flink.apache.org/news/2022/09/08/akka-license-change...