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| Imagine this alternate utopia. | |
| OSS developers register 1099s with Amazon. | |
| Amazon aggreagates usage statistics of packages. | |
| Amazon provides monthly royalty distributions. | |
| In this alternate reality, developers would be falling over each other to start an Amazon OSS project. | |
| People would quit their boring day jobs to earn royalties from their software. | |
| Because its royalty based, when I'm in between "flow states," I still get paid. | |
| Developers would be all about fixing bugs for Amazon's customers. | |
| I don't want to run a company. I want to write good software and make a reasonable living at it. | |
| OSS developers would be dedicated to AWS. -- Apache 3.0. | |
| A win-win situation for everyone... | |
| ---and of the $25B in AWS revenue, I suspect less than $50M to developers would have everyone stoked | |
| ^-- saw this somewhere ^--- completely out of thin air. |
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