Re:Large Corporations Aren’t Going to Save the Real Linux Co...
by amelius on Sunday November 08, 2020 @03:00PM
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Patents are broken. But they can perhaps be fixed by effectuating a challenge-period after a patent application starts, whereby the patent can be invalidated if someone comes up with an implementation. Also there should be better protection against trolling, for example by requiring the holder of the patent to have a product implementing that patent. Further, a patent should not provide a strict monopoly on the technology for a given period (blocking competitors), but the rules should be so that anyone can buy a license for a reasonable price.
Re:Large Corporations Aren’t Going to Save the Real Linux Co...
by phkahler on Sunday November 08, 2020 @02:37PM
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Dual license: AGPL and commercial. Simple.
Re:Large Corporations Aren’t Going to Save the Real Linux Co...
by im3w1l on Sunday November 08, 2020 @02:59PM
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AGPL requires you to disclose any changes to the source you make to an SaaS. But it allows making money.
If you want to disallow making money you have to use an even stricter license.
Re:Large Corporations Aren’t Going to Save the Real Linux Co...
by phkahler on Monday November 09, 2020 @07:29AM
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No free license disallows making money. But the requirement for making source code available means people dont need to pay.
To make money you need to offer something more than just one program. Adding value outside the code itself is viable.
Re:Large Corporations Aren’t Going to Save the Real Linux Co...
by im3w1l on Sunday November 08, 2020 @03:02PM
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The issue with patents was that they were used for silly landgrabbing of obvious stuff and locking them up for a long time.
Now that things have matured a bit, I think 5-10 year long patents would be perfectly healthy.
And, actually, we already have something quite similar, but I predict it won't fly with open source communities, most of which hate it unequivocally:
patents