When I worked for the UK Government I was once asked if we could find a way to pay for all the Open Source Software we were using. It is a surprisingly hard problem and I want to talk about some of the issues we faced. The UK Government publishes a lot of Open Source code - nearly everything developed in-house by the state is available under an OSI Approved licence. The UK is generally pretty…
  • CombatWombat@feddit.onlineEnglish
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    3 days ago

    So easy! If you wanna get paid, just already be getting paid et voila:

    The best defence against this is to have lot of paying sponsors!