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Nobody pays for FOSS, we can force them to

Thirty years of voluntary funding schemes haven't paid open source maintainers because asking doesn't scale. The real money already flows — to JFrog, Docker, Sonatype — at the registry layer. The fix: registries charge companies for supply (they…

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Published5 h ago (Sun, 20 Sep 2026 21:04:32 GMT)
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