Aaron Wolf

> In my view, the new hypothetical foundation offers clarity of purpose. Money in = projects out. I don't see that anywhere else. I _do_ agree that element is essential,...

No way is this solved. I could go on and on and on about how worthy projects are under-resourced currently while bullshit redundant crap nobody needs gets funded on the...

@ariddell Absolutely. As co-founder of [Snowdrift.coop](https://snowdrift.coop/), I had tons of people emailing me when that article came out desperately asking if we could get working soon. I only wish we...

> EDITED: The lesson of the RIAA and MPAA over the last 20 years is that if you provide a way for people to do the ~~right~~ legal thing _conveniently_,...

Yeah, absolutely. But there's a potential slippery slope where if we play the "special access" card, we risk turning to proprietary thinking and lose sight of the whole point of...

@ariddell and if "All large companies using the software who wanted to get bugfixes would have to pay." is true, then you threaten the entire core aspect of Open Source...

@ericholscher are you considering in that the case of individuals who use something at their company and contribute back their fixes? At any rate, my point is that if a...

This is not a model for software freedom, it's a model for half-assed freemium software freedom. At _best_, it's like GitLab where the extra features are really not that significant...

The _only_ ways that stop freeloading entirely _also_ result in exclusionary things that limit the audience, limit access… basically, the definition of software freedom means that people _can_ have the...

@nayafia license proliferation is itself bad generally. It's perfectly fine to add non-legal messages. And if one _does_ make a new license, it makes perfect sense to have human messages...