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Re:Large Corporations Aren’t Going to Save the Real Linux Co... by orlandohill on Sunday November 08, 2020 @03:06PM (#25028497)
Check out the Polyform Project's Small Business License. It has a threshold of 100 employees and contractors, and 1,000,000 USD in annual revenue.

Of course, the OSI's Open Source Definition precludes these kinds of restrictions, so it isn't "open source" by that definition.

https://polyformproject.org/licenses/small-business/1.0.0/

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Re:Large Corporations Aren’t Going to Save the Real Linux Co... by amelius on Sunday November 08, 2020 @03:12PM (#25028544)
> Of course, the OSI's Open Source Definition precludes these kinds of restrictions, so isn't "open source".

One would almost think there are some large corporations behind that organization and its definitions ...

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Re:Large Corporations Aren’t Going to Save the Real Linux Co... by bni on Sunday November 08, 2020 @04:33PM (#25029277)
Actually these kinds of restrictions have always made the software "non-free" all the way back since GNU. Long before any large corps got involved.

OSS inherited this and was always very clear with it also.

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