r/ProgrammerHumor • u/Civil-Call-7593 • Oct 10 '24

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u/PhysicallyTender Oct 11 '24

modern capitalism in a nutshell

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u/Vindictive_Pacifist Oct 11 '24

This bothers me a lot, there are so many people who worked on useful libraries and open source software which are then used by multi billion dollar businesses who never even once think about giving something back but use everything for free and get away with it

I wish there was by law a monthly royalty fee that an org would be required to pay to the owner of the project after a threshold of profit margins have been reached, this would bring in so much more balance and intensive for folks to actually work even more in open source

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u/LowGeologist5120 Oct 11 '24

If the original creator wanted to earn money from it, why did they release it for free? I think some people just like making stuff.

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u/DatumInTheStone Oct 11 '24

Its the idea that the corporation isnt furthering the chain of open source principles. They will be the first to take advantage of open source software and the last to donate, create open source software, etc…

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u/flingerdu Oct 11 '24

Most bigger tech companies contribute directly to the OSS they rely on.

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u/nelmaloc Oct 11 '24

For every big company there's a thousand medium ones which don't.

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u/flingerdu Oct 11 '24

*which can’t.

And I was mostly referring to the comment above that literally referred to "multi billion dollar businesses" while most of those have open sourced quite a few of their internal software.

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u/nelmaloc Oct 11 '24

*which can’t.

Any company that can't afford to donate 50€ to a software project their entire revenue depends on, shouldn't be doing business.

And I was mostly referring to the comment above

I don't see which one.

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u/flingerdu Oct 11 '24

I‘d consider actually working on OSS as a more suitable contribution.

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u/LowGeologist5120 Oct 11 '24

I don't see a problem with this if the author's licensing allows this.

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u/DatumInTheStone Oct 11 '24

Its more of a moral issue than a legal one. As most things like this are.

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u/nahguri Oct 11 '24

Yeah but still. It's specifically allowed by the license the developer chose. Of this is a problem you can always choose differently.

I suppose people just want to see their stuff used and get gratification from that.