what if we collectively paywalled corporations for access to open source software? 🤔
where authors joined a union of sorts and required a fee per month to the union organization for permission to use the software to "increase shareholder value". then the union redistributed the funds based on which projects were generating the income.
we'd create a community where the members are all motivated to maintain the software and contribute to member projects.
now tell me why this is bad and wrong.
@quirk 🤔 stumped me.
IANAL but I assume from a regulatory point of view, this sort of self-assembling structure would be more akin to a co-op or b-corporation.
As a corporation, at what point to you just become redhat and get bought out by IBM?
@adasauce I think it could be different from a corporation but it's important to get the details right.