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What am I missing with Matrix?
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Yeah that does give me a lot of patience with a lot of FOSS in general, though as far as I can tell that's never really applied to Matrix in particular. It was initially started by Amdocs, an Israeli communications firm, and then they gave it to a UK group that formed a company, and then crowd funded it.
Or a legal one. If it were cheaper to enforce licenses FOSS devs would actually be able to use a separate personal/commercial license in order to actually get companies/governments to pay them, while still allowing them to be free for personal use. It's not exactly what WinRAR did (we were all breaking the TOS), but it's practically what they did. The problem is that FOSS devs don't have lawyer money, and you need lawyer money to do that
I don't think (and also wouldn't want) that this should be solved by the legal system. It would mean open source developers would have to deal with the whole legal side and implement telemetry into software which largely goes against the idea of many open source projects. How else would you be able to know that a company used your software?
We don't currently have another way of enforcing this sort of thing, though, aside making software paid by default. How else will you convince a company that isn't even concerned with its long-term growth in favor of quarterly earnings reports to pay money for free software? Especially when you consider that (at least in the US) that sort of thing could get them sued by their shareholders.
Frequently threats of legal action, backed by the ability to follow through on them, are enough to get most companies to fold, and pay. I don't know that telemetry would be required in most cases, just because employees do talk, and usually publicly. I'm not sure if Unreal Engine does, but I can say with some certainty that WinRar didn't, and most of their money was made through commercial licenses on nagware