tante.cc responds to Laurie Voss’s proposal to force companies to pay for open source through package registries, arguing it treats free software mainly as an underpaid startup and big-tech supply chain and overlooks desktop, distribution, and infrastructure projects that never pass through npm or PyPI, and asking what kinds of software and structures the community actually wants to fund.
What kind of Software should we fund?
tante.cc responds to Laurie Voss's proposal to force companies to pay for open source through package registries, arguing it treats free software mainly as an underpaid startup and big-tech supply chain and overlooks desktop, distribution, and infrastructure projects that never pass through npm or PyPI, and asking what kinds of software and structures the community actually wants to fund.
Source: Tante