The parasite class didn’t get rich by paying people what they’re worth, and I doubt they’re going to start now
I don’t think you can blame them for this. How many resources do you use without voluntarily paying extra above your legal requirements? Do you donate every time you go to free libraries, museums, parks, cathedrals, etc? I certainly don’t and I don’t think that makes me “the parasite class”.
On the one hand I like the sentiment of paying for open source software. But on the other hand the free part of free software is kind of very on the nose.
makes thing for free
Doesn’t get paid for it
Why not make a license that makes it free if you contribute to development and paid for if you don’t?
Because for those using it non commercially it would be prohibitively expensive.
I guess it’s time to push for more AGPL
This is the way.
Meanwhile, corpos scrambling to take down their “we ❤️ [profiting from] open source” banners.
