Puts Chief Tightwad Officers on notice

Drivers passing through San Francisco have a new roadside distraction to consider: billboards calling out businesses that don’t cough up for the open source code that they use.

The signs are the work of the Open Source Pledge – a group that launched earlier this month. It asks businesses that make use of open source code to pledge $2,000 per developer to support projects that develop the code. So far, 25 companies have signed up – but project co-founder Chad Whitacre wants bigger firms to pay their dues, too.

  • Vendetta9076@sh.itjust.works
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    27 days ago

    It feels to me like a bunch of “rules for thee but not for me” type people co-opting a movement.

    I don’t have to pay cause I’m special. But you do.