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Were these cloud companies, their product managers and execs were not ethical enough to contribute let's say just 2% of the revenue to the base open source proj
by wg0 2y ago
Were these cloud companies, their product managers and execs were not ethical enough to contribute let's say just 2% of the revenue to the base open source projects and even directly label it as "Open Source Sustainability Surcharge (OSSS) in the invoices and UIs?
That would have been enough to stop forks and license switches. May be a little less wines, watches, women and yatches for the execs though.
- nijave 2y agoI think this is much less straight forward when the OSS is glued to a commercial company. Giving money to a competitor is different than giving money to an open initiative. Does Redis Labs give back to the Linux Foundation and OpenSSL?
- wg0 2y agoGood question. But I still believe a percentage based revenue share would have been a far greater deal than none at all.