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    Nobody pays for FOSS, we can force them to

    The post argues that the free‑software model (MIT/BSD/Apache licenses) is an evolutionarily stable strategy: anyone can use the code for free, and attempts to charge via restrictive licenses fail because forks quickly replace them. This stability comes at a human cost—most maintainers are unpaid, many burn out, and the rapid velocity of modern ecosystems (npm, cloud services) amplifies the mainte…

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