The fuck is this word soup title? Is it supposed to activate the Winter Soldier or something?
I have read it multiple times and I can’t even figure out how the words relate to each other
Edit: it appears Bruce Perens has released a draft version of an open-source software license.
I didn’t know that “emit” is a verb that can be used for such an action.
I would agree that one does not normally ‘emit’ documents
Does word soup come before or after word salad? You’re right though lol, I just copied the title directly from the article
I’m surprised every single time. Slashdot still exists.
The key idea from the article is –
…Companies making more than $5 million annually by using Post-Open software in a paid-for product would be required to pay 1 percent of their revenue back to this administrative organization, which would distribute the funds to the maintainers of the participating open source project(s). That would cover all Post-Open software used by the organization.
Nice idea but the chances of that happening is close to zero.
If you take the top 10000 companies around the world that use some open source software and count the amount of full time employees that contribute with code to open source projects I would be extremely surprised if you would reach 10000 contributers in total.
I love the philosophy behind open source but business people doesn’t understand why it’s valuable for them to have additional cost associated with “employees helping competitors”.
Business people are the ones pulling the strings in the corporate world.
I was lucky enough to see Bruce Perens speak at Linux Expo in 1997.
Egads, that was a long time ago. O.o
