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		varispeed on March 23, 2021 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Plan 9 from Bell Labs in Cyberspace > and if the open source project generates no revenue? For example 0.1% of 0 is 0 (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Percentage) Whoever gets the revenue from the software should be paying. Regarding any constructs with foundations and other tax avoidance schemes, that's probably another topic.

Aloha on March 23, 2021 [–]

So, basically, you're saying that if you make money from the software, you should be required to pay money to the copyright holders (aka, the developers).

At that point, what sets aside open source software from any other kind of software?

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