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Re:No More Free Work from Marak: Pay Me or Fork This by jstgord on Monday November 09, 2020 @02:50AM (#25032316)
Another potentially _right_ solution is for programmers to have a union, and put pressure on employers such as google/amazon/facebook/apple to donate x% of their profits back to open source initiatives.
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Re:No More Free Work from Marak: Pay Me or Fork This by Seb-C on Monday November 09, 2020 @03:51AM (#25032739)
Google and Facebook already both contribute heavily to a lot of open source projects actually, despite some negative influences.
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Re:No More Free Work from Marak: Pay Me or Fork This by randartie on Monday November 09, 2020 @04:03AM (#25032817)
If an app from google uses 1000 open source projects (probably more in practice), how do you distribute the x%?
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