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Re:The Commons Clause is an existential threat to open source by dragonwriter on Wednesday August 22, 2018 @12:25PM (#17819862)
> One challenge is the name "Commons" is very misleading. It's not creating a commons

“Commons” isn't the thing the clause creates, it's the problem it aims to solve. Naming contract or license clauses after the problem they address is not uncommon.

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Re:The Commons Clause is an existential threat to open source by binomialxenon on Wednesday August 22, 2018 @12:56PM (#17820084)
It would be terrible PR to call this the "Anti- Commons Clause", but it would indeed be accurate.
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