Re:Non-Commercial Licenses Are Non-Free Licenses
by ignoramous on Tuesday August 31, 2021 @10:10AM
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The economics of FOSS and its sociology can reinforce each other, and that's where the true benefit lies. Throwing the code at the wall to see if its sticks and if it does, then expecting it pay one's bills isn't what FOSS is about, unfortunately.
On economics of software, these posts make for a good reading:
https://www.joelonsoftware.com/2002/06/12/strategy-letter-v/
http://dtrace.org/blogs/bmc/2004/12/16/the-economics-of-soft...
On FOSS and permissive licensing, see these:
https://blogs.apache.org/foundation/entry/the-apache-way-to-...
http://dtrace.org/blogs/bmc/2018/12/14/open-source-confronts...
> Is it? Can you truly support this argument?
Re:Non-Commercial Licenses Are Non-Free Licenses
by user-the-name on Tuesday August 31, 2021 @01:41PM
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> The economics of FOSS and its sociology can reinforce each other,
The word "can" is doing a lot of heavy lifting in this sentence.
Does it do that, in practice?
Re:Non-Commercial Licenses Are Non-Free Licenses
by ignoramous on Wednesday September 01, 2021 @03:04PM
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It has been done? For ex, citus-data (mysql), redhat (linux), 2ndQuadrant (postgres), github/gitlab (git).
Re:Non-Commercial Licenses Are Non-Free Licenses
by user-the-name on Wednesday September 01, 2021 @06:38PM
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Yes. But are those the minority exceptions?
Is it? Can you truly support this argument?
I can't work on open-source code full time without getting paid. I have bills to pay. If I release a project, try to make some money on the side, and Amazon swoops in, takes all my code, and offers it for less than I can afford, I will have to stop working on it.
Does the software still grow now?