The same absence of contracts and lawyers that let companies adopt open source freely is what let experts publish it, and raising the bar would break both.

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Our reading — they may agree, disagree or merely touch the same thing. Closest first: a shared subject counts for most, then how near the wording is.

• A business making hundreds of millions from an open source project owes it money or contribution, and can be refused its trademarks if it gives neither. MMMatt Mullenweg26 Sept 2024open source
• A company that will not accept a project’s terms is free to go and use a more permissive project instead. MMMatt Mullenweg26 Sept 2024open source
• A few hundred dollars a month is nothing to a company and transformative to a project, so engineers should be the ones asking their employers to pay it. DDDrew DeVault22 Aug 2018open source
• A licence is only the floor of open source; what keeps a project alive is an ethos of contribution that no licence can compel. MMMatt Mullenweg17 Sept 2024open source
• A proprietary language licensed from Microsoft had zero chance in the JavaScript ecosystem: TypeScript had to be open source or nobody would come. AHAnders Hejlsberg13 May 2026open source

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