This is why I’m thinking the almost religious ideal of “free to everyone for anything” is probably a mistake, because there’s a lot of FOSS software being used by corporations for evil things like shareholder profits.
We need to start licensing things under a “free for humans, insultingly expensive for corporations” model. “My code is free for private citizens, sole proprietorships, small businesses, charities, students, etc. and $900,000,000,000 per minute per seat for any organization with stock that is traded on an exchange.”
This is why I’m thinking the almost religious ideal of “free to everyone for anything” is probably a mistake, because there’s a lot of FOSS software being used by corporations for evil things like shareholder profits.
We need to start licensing things under a “free for humans, insultingly expensive for corporations” model. “My code is free for private citizens, sole proprietorships, small businesses, charities, students, etc. and $900,000,000,000 per minute per seat for any organization with stock that is traded on an exchange.”
The problem with this is loopholes.
What’s to stop a parent company from starting a private sub company for IT needs and contract out the work?
BAM there goes the anti stock thing.
I say free for personal/private use but not for commercial would be a better license.
Costs are dumb cheap for single seat but increases as seats goes up.