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Re:OS.Cash: open-source should not be free-software for Bill... by retrocryptid on Tuesday August 01, 2023 @12:12PM (#36958001)
In other words, you want to ensure that any company large enough to pay software developers to write patches for open source projects will never submit a patch to your open source project.
Re:OS.Cash: open-source should not be free-software for Bill... by daniel_riel on Friday August 04, 2023 @06:57AM (#36998179)
So you're idea is to hope that some large company hires an FTE to contribute to your project full time? Sounds like a very poor bet.

Anyway, I would vastly rather they pay me to write the patch properly, the way I want it, the way I would have designed it. Much easier to maintain than than a drive-by patch.

As long as you are paid regular enterprise-software range fees, hiring your own freelancers to help you write patches is also easily achievable.

Re:OS.Cash: open-source should not be free-software for Bill... by ChibiJoel on Tuesday August 01, 2023 @11:53AM (#36957689)
OS.Cash lets developers use the power of open-source while still protecting open-source developers.