“The GPL is not acting the way the GPL should have done when one-third of all paid-for Linux systems are sold with a GPL circumvention. That’s RHEL.”
Perens says IBM has taken everything it wanted from open source developers and handed back “a middle finger.” His fix is Post-Open: one license, free for individuals, with a yearly compliance fee for companies that funds the developers. It has no lawyer and no grant money yet. Thirty years of open source got corporations free labour, and one of its founders now wants to send the invoice.