It would be great if all open source required payment of at least 1 dollarcent for enterprises, to make sure the purchase accounting layers are working in case anyone wants to send more money.

For 1 cent, we can still call it "free" even as in beer, the amount is small enough for that to be fair.

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chuckadams 2 days ago | parent | next [-]

And if the penny isn't paid, no source? Then it's not open source. And practically speaking, no one will pay that.

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amelius 2 days ago | parent [-]

If the penny isn't paid, they can still have the source.

But their legal department will have a problem.

I hope you understand the point now.

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chuckadams 2 days ago | parent [-]

Going after them with legal claims is an odd definition of "can".

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amelius 2 days ago | parent [-]

Nobody is going after them.

And remember this is only for enterprises.

	▲	TheNewsIsHere 13 hours ago \| parent [-]
		This does require large players acting in good faith. Or, at best, competently. Sometimes both of those, or neither, are in evidence. But I like the way you think. Make it a contract performance issue for legal teams to police internally.

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thayne 2 days ago | parent | prev [-]

And in order to pay that 1 cent, you have to pay 23 cents or so to a payment processor.

	▲	amelius 2 days ago \| parent [-]
		It's only for enterprises. They should have no problem with that.