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You have to look very carefully at contributions after this.
Lol
Instead authors typically sell through copyright maximalist proprietary publishers who take their cut keeping the author dream of riches alive.
Yes the AI companies are philistine barbarians at the gate. But in comparison to FOSS where people strive tp empower others, aren't authors greedy and naive expecting exveptionalism?
Good luck!
> All in all, we speculate that web apps will never be able to provide all the local-first properties we are looking for, due to the fundamental thin-client nature of the platform. By choosing to build a web app, you are choosing the path of data belonging to you and your company, not to your users.
This is just wrong, consider cups with a headless backend at 127.0.0.1, but in there doing whatever it needs to do.
Browsers are too good at being universal frontends to ban them according to shaky dogma.
Some companies use it as a field-salting strategy to deny a resource needed to enter a business to competitors.
And they sit there getting highly-paid to get scrummed and go through Jiras.
These are different animals, FOSS means you give downstream users most of the key rights in the software that you have, including sources, the rights to use it and distribute to others.
If you want to restrictively license it so people have to pay you, that's something very different, "all rights reserved".
Dual-license means you make the free option 'too free' for most commercial users, forcing them to supply changed sources and also allow anyone to distribute it under the same terms, GPL3 is a common choice. It's 'viral' and probably forces anything linked to it to be GPL3 or freer, including any of their own secret source. But those guys are not obliged to pay you anything.
The commercial users who don't want to share their work on top of yours can approach you for a separate, paid, restrictive licence allowing that.
How well it works depends on how common it is to bind stuff to the GPL3 version and how objectionable that is for commercial users, funnelling them into your paid licence.
Don't expect skilled people who care about your constraints to dedicate your life to them for $100 a year, when they might get sued to death.
I read the original story a week ago and initially assumed this is a new story following up on it. It isn't.
"they" don't "need" to do anything for whomever you are.
It sounds like you might benefit from blocking out some time and producing a public open source project. Then when you deal with people like yourself explaining that you "need" to eat ramen noodles and live in your car so they can make money for free, you will be able to understand what is wrong.