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Re:An Open Licensing Organization for Open Source Software by prepend on Wednesday June 06, 2018 @09:11AM (#17246807)
That’s great for companies, but bad for organizations. I run into this with commercial vendors who try to explain how all 10k people in my org would benefit, whereas I know only 100 would use it.

Just because something is easy to verify, doesn’t make t fair.

There’s very little software that I would ever think warrants $500/employee/year for a small startup.

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Re:An Open Licensing Organization for Open Source Software by mperham on Wednesday June 06, 2018 @03:08PM (#17250086)
You're misunderstanding. You pay $xxx/employee to buy a license to use ALL software with that license. You aren't buying one thing for N employees.

Let's assume Linux, Apache and PHP all licensed via the OSCC. $xxx/employee means you can use all OSCC projects in production for your org. Royalties would go back to those projects based on usage tracking (which itself is a major complication).

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Re:An Open Licensing Organization for Open Source Software by prepend on Friday June 08, 2018 @11:13PM (#17271316)
There is software not using your system that I would need. Even if this covered all OSS products I use, I wouldn’t pay $500. The price is kind of ridiculous. If it’s for every employee in the org
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