OS.Cash: open-source should not be free-software for Billion Dollar Businesses

#1

Post by ChibiJoel » Tue, Aug 01, 2023, 3:53 PM UTC

OS.Cash: open-source should not be free-software for Billion Dollar Businesses
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Re: OS.Cash: open-source should not be free-software for Billion Dollar Businesses

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Post by ChibiJoel » Tue, Aug 01, 2023, 3:53 PM UTC

OS.Cash lets developers use the power of open-source while still protecting open-source developers.

Re: OS.Cash: open-source should not be free-software for Billion Dollar Businesses

#3

Post by retrocryptid » Tue, Aug 01, 2023, 4:12 PM UTC

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 Billion Dollar Businesses

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Post by daniel_riel » Fri, Aug 04, 2023, 10:57 AM UTC

retrocryptid wrote: post #3

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.

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 Billion Dollar Businesses

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Post by max_faust » Fri, Aug 04, 2023, 11:19 AM UTC

ChibiJoel wrote: post #2

OS.Cash lets developers use the power of open-source while still protecting open-source developers.

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