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Nobody pays for open source. We can force them to. | Seldo.com (seldo.com)

submitted 3 weeks ago by brisk@aussie.zone to c/foss@beehaw.org

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There's been some discussions recently about how to fund open source, usually by abandoning it in some fashion. This is instead proposing that a "royalties" mechanism is established by existing repositories.

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[–] t3rmit3@beehaw.org 14 points 3 weeks ago

If a company is going to pay for software, they'll expect support as part of that license, and OSS doesn't provide that in most cases. It'll end up with people setting up companies that offer the OSS + support. This is what Chainguard is/does.

Maybe there's a world where Chainguard pays the OSS devs for new versions, but the more likely outcome is that "registry gated" projects just get banned from use by devs, like most companies will do for ones with anti commercial licenses.