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This should be standard industry practice. Any company above a certain size should contribute financially to all software it depends on.

• johnnyanmac 10mo ago
  if this was industry practice, licenses like GPL wouldn't have needed to be created.
• nullorempty 10mo ago
  that's a great point. and make it proportional to how much they make off it. looking at you aws for all the great oss software you sell.
• jethro_tell 10mo ago
  Which for AI companies would be every public GitHub page to start.
  • kristofferR 10mo ago
    Not to mention GitHub/Microsoft itself.
• lofaszvanitt 10mo ago
  Tell that to the FOSS zealots....
• lifetimerubyist 10mo ago
  We used to call this “buying an enterprise license”.