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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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[–] ambitiousslab@feddit.uk 23 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

Then it wouldn’t be free as in FOSS

I had the same perception as you before I read the article, so I presume we both made the same wrong assumption. Apologies if I misunderstood your comment.

It's not suggesting anyone changes the licenses to enforce this. Instead, it suggests that the package repositories should charge companies for access. Companies that want to use a free mirror will, but many will pay for convenience of using the official repository. A cut of that money is then automatically shared to maintainers.