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Open Source Developers Are Exhausted, Unpaid, and Ready to Walk Away (itsfoss.com)
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[–] entwine@programming.dev 3 points 1 day ago (1 children)

More devs need to start doing AGPL with other licenses available for a licensing fee. Or better yet, price it based on revenue with the LGPL/GPL/Apache version free for orgs under $1bn annual revenue, and everyone else has to pay up.

The OSI was a mistake. They were wrong, Stallman was right. How long until open source devs finally accept this?