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Open source maintenance fee (opensourcemaintenancefee.org)

submitted 2 weeks ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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I saw this some time ago and wasn't really sure how to feel about it. On one hand it's good to make corporations compensate maintainers, but I also don't want to be forced to ask for a fee because my project uses another project that uses this.

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 weeks ago

A lot of Microsoft-oriented developers still don’t understand the free software movement, and have been trying to twist it into something they can comprehend since it started four decades ago.