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SF ads call out tech firms for not paying for open source (www.theregister.com)

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Drivers passing through San Francisco have a new roadside distraction to consider: billboards calling out businesses that don't cough up for the open source code that they use.

The signs are the work of the Open Source Pledge – a group that launched earlier this month. It asks businesses that make use of open source code to pledge $2,000 per developer to support projects that develop the code. So far, 25 companies have signed up – but project co-founder Chad Whitacre wants bigger firms to pay their dues, too.

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[–] [email protected] 17 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (1 children)

Right? For me the free as in freedom always had the upside and downside of people have the freedom to use it how they want. Within the very lenient license which might be in use of course. This can include the freedom to do things with the software which the creators and contributors might not agree with or like.

But in the end a certain trust in humanity and the concept of freedom itself mean that we believe the net sum of making your software free will be positive for everyone. And to this day I haven't managed to become enough of a cynic to change my mind on this.

Its possible to dicuss licenses which helps prevent certain abuse cases. In fact those already exist. However people talk like this is the main issue of FOSS which I don't think it is at all.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Embrace. Extend. Extinguish.

Those words proved the folly of the "free as in freedom" open source many moons ago.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 3 weeks ago

Did it? We're still here.