Re:“I wish I could have licensed the Id source code releases...
by ric2b on Saturday July 17, 2021 @06:52AM
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> There are few people that have authority to negotiate and their time is expensive. If they spend two hours to "negotiate", they are charging a pile of money the company could have paid you instead.
Right, but making my code MIT won't get me paid either.
I will just spend more of my free time offering free support to some large enterprise that can't even figure out how to make a 1h negotiation happen without wasting boatloads of money.
Re:“I wish I could have licensed the Id source code releases...
by elevader on Tuesday July 06, 2021 @07:37AM
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Sorry, that might have been a bad choice of words on my part (not a native speaker). I agree that this process would be simple and easy in an ideal world but we can't reasonably expect every developer to think about price structures for their small OSS projects. So this will most likely involve at least some sort of talking between both parties.
Ultimately the company plans to make mony off of the OSS project, surely those two hours won't make the whole business case invalid.
Why do you want to negotiate? Large corps are burocracies. I can only get mine to donate to a registered charity, is your project one? To pay a bill is easier.
There are few people that have authority to negotiate and their time is expensive. If they spend two hours to "negotiate", they are charging a pile of money the company could have paid you instead.