Posted by: Anonymous Coward
on April 23, 2002 05:48 PM
Pardon my ignorance, but why don’t organizations centered around GPL like licensed software, (like linux, openoffice or wine) alter the GPL license so as to give companies and programmers financial motivation to work and contribute to the code?
For example, the organizations can at some stage charge a small fee for the use of the software, but only to reimbursement programmers for the time they put into the code. There can be an initial priority list of those who have contributed what, and how much, and once the programmers have been paid off the software becomes free. Sure the time between working on the code and been paid could be long, since you’d have to wait in a queue, but, at least a company is reassured that the money put into development will be fully refundable.
Imagine an independent programmer been able to work on open source software, in the open source community and make a living at the same time.
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Posted by: Anonymous Coward on April 23, 2002 05:48 PMFor example, the organizations can at some stage charge a small fee for the use of the software, but only to reimbursement programmers for the time they put into the code. There can be an initial priority list of those who have contributed what, and how much, and once the programmers have been paid off the software becomes free. Sure the time between working on the code and been paid could be long, since you’d have to wait in a queue, but, at least a company is reassured that the money put into development will be fully refundable.
Imagine an independent programmer been able to work on open source software, in the open source community and make a living at the same time.
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