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Discussion on: I will now charge my clients a fee to support open source projects

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Zerophase

Why not just gpl your code and sue companies for all of their profits when they use your code in non-gpl code bases? That's what ghostscript is currently doing. I believe they'll be getting 700 million at the end of the day. You can still charge corporations for product support too.

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Aryaman Arora

Lawyers are expensive

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Joe Pea • Edited

And you still have money after paying the lawyers, compared to MIT projects, and the lawyers did all the work, so 🎉!