• thesporkeffect@lemmy.world
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      5 months ago

      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.

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    5 months ago

    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.

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    5 months ago

    I was lucky enough to see Bruce Perens speak at Linux Expo in 1997.

    Egads, that was a long time ago. O.o