alt Hacker NewsThis should be standard industry practice. Any company above a certain size should contribute financially to all software it depends on.
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nullorempty • last Thursday at 8:55 PM
that's a great point. and make it proportional to how much they make off it. looking at you aws for all the great oss software you sell.
johnnyanmac • last Thursday at 8:51 PM
if this was industry practice, licenses like GPL wouldn't have needed to be created.
lofaszvanitt • last Thursday at 11:47 PM
Tell that to the FOSS zealots....
lifetimerubyist • yesterday at 12:51 AM
We used to call this “buying an enterprise license”.
Which for AI companies would be every public GitHub page to start.