What comes after open source? Bruce Perens is working on it
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'Our licenses aren't working anymore,' says free software pioneer

TLDR: Companies should be required to pay developers for any open source software they use.

He imagines a simple yearly compliance process that gets companies all the rights they need to use Post-Open software. And they’d fund developers who would be encouraged to write software that’s usable by the common person, as opposed to technical experts.

It’s an interesting concept, but I don’t really see any feasible means to get this to kick off.

What are your thoughts on it?

  • Atemu@lemmy.ml
    2·
    6 months ago

    Is there a court case about this already? Because that’s clearly not the intention of the GPL.

    • Lvxferre@lemmy.ml
      4·
      6 months ago

      I don’t think that there is one yet, otherwise it would get famous. Not sure though.