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by phendrenad2 1718 days ago
The whole "corporations owe open-source developers remuneration" movement feels like the setup for a big grift. Maybe we'll get some laws passed that enforce this. Maybe we'll get something like the RIAA which tried to claim royalties for all streaming audio, regardless of if the copyright holder was a RIAA member (https://m.slashdot.org/story/84061).