Re:Toward Copyleft Equality for All
by _frkl on Monday January 20, 2020 @03:35PM
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I'm torn. On one side I do like this idea, on the other hand I don't see a practical way to work on exploratory open source software in some areas where your effort (even if it actually ends up delivering value to somebody) will be rewarded adequately. The existing models (open core, support contracts, donations, ...) may work here and there (although some of those would be invalidated by this suggestion), but compared to a traditional strategy just writing proprietary code it's quite a bit more difficult to make money. And I reckon that is difficult enough as it is...
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I don't think anyone suggested that it should be easy to make money that way. It was and likely will always be more difficult. Which doesn't mean it shouldn't be done.
Of course nobody suggested that, that's far off the point I was trying to make. If it's harder to do, less people will do it. Whereas I'd like the opposite to happen. If you take away the option to dual-license, it becomes harder still.