Due to lemmy.world blocking pirating communities, I will now be using !CosmicTurtle0@lemmy.dbzer0.com

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Cake day: June 13th, 2023

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  • Shit, I’m even grateful for when you all tell me off.

    Oh fuck off!

    Just kidding! I haven’t seen any of your posts here (mostly because I sort by all) but yeah the people in this sub are top tier.

    A few weeks ago I came here to ask about building my own computer and which parts to get because it had been years since I’ve done so and everyone was nice about it.


  • I don’t think we need more licenses. OSS license proliferation is bad as it is. IMO, people should do their best to stick with the major licenses: GPL, AGPL, MIT, or Creative Commons if it doesn’t fit the above.

    The problem with a tax that you’ve proposed is that it would be nearly impossible to enforce. How would you know which companies are pulling your library?

    What I’ve been doing is adding the Commons Clause to my license and that I think helps. I don’t write wildly popular software so I don’t really see people donating or asking to purchase a license.

    I personally like the Mozilla model where they donate to various open source projects from a common fund. I’d like to see more stuff like that.




  • Which, by itself, is fine. But their contributions to open source are very one-handed and pale in comparison to how much they benefit out of it.

    Hell, my company is no different. They allocate one day out of the year as “open source day” where devs can contribute back to open source projects on company time. But it must be something we already use.

    No personal development. No non-essential libraries.

    We make literally millions off of these libraries and we don’t even contribute monetarily.

    If these companies gave even 0.01% of their revenue to these essential libraries, they’d never even have to ask for money.