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Open Source Developers Are Exhausted, Unpaid, and Ready to Walk Away (itsfoss.com)
submitted 10 months ago by to c/opensource@lemmy.ml
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The foundation of modern software is cracking under the weight of burnout.

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[–] 20 points 10 months ago (6 children)

I hope the Post Open license will be a part of the solution for this. Free commercial use of opensource should be disallowed.

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  • [–] 3 points 10 months ago (1 child)

    Postopen probably won't save it. There are ways to create even more copyleft license but that would mean create everything from scratch. Like compilers to everytool but no one will use that other than who wants complete copyleft works. Not even Linux can use that tools. But no one wants that lol

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  • [–] 2 points 10 months ago (2 children)

    I don't think we need post open.

    Rather, ditch MIT/BSD for GPL (with no LGPL bandaids) and enforce-

    NO WARRANTY

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  • [–] 2 points 10 months ago (1 child)

    How is that going to fund opensource?

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  • [–] 4 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

    Switching to a proprietary license doesn't "fund open source" it funds proprietary software

    Which, fine, if your business model is incompatible with an open source license then sure. But don't present it as something it isn't

    Edit: You can dual license under a strong copyleft (strong enough to scare moochers away) and a proprietary license (fauxpen or traditional).

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