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Open source maintenance fee (opensourcemaintenancefee.org)

submitted 1 week ago by qaz@lemmy.world to c/opensource@lemmy.ml

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I saw this some time ago and wasn't really sure how to feel about it. On one hand it's good to make corporations compensate maintainers, but I also don't want to be forced to ask for a fee because my project uses another project that uses this.

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[-] ganymede@lemmy.ml 3 points 1 week ago

A lot of Microsoft-oriented developers still don’t understand the free software movement, and have been trying to twist it into something they can comprehend since it started four decades ago.

this post was submitted on 19 Mar 2025

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