Fuck you Perl people tho
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They're not calling it 'donating', they're calling it pay-for-service (ala gig economy). Red Hat model but without W-2 for things too spread out to be pulled into a Red hat, rather than Linux Foundation model.
We may prefer the Foundation model, but the firms with the $$ to pay prefer a support-and-license-warranty-subscription model. If this works -- big if -- it could be a good thing. OTOH it has a very good chance of crashing and burning.
Having spent over a decade at a $F500 firm in FLOSS-Governance circles (alas past tense), i see their subscription model as rather more salable to my ex-mgt than Perl Foundation donations or ActiveState subscriptions.
(I seriously considered requisitioning AS Perl sub$cription for multiple platforms, but they didn't build the DBD::* modules that were my only pain point.)
From Big IT view (and even SMBs), their one-stop shopping for support and license warranty for all the FLOSS that isn't supported by Red Hat or Canonical is a very plausible business plan. Needs to be truly one-stop to win. (So they need to include us too.)
regarding the "big if" -- Tide has to know that if Tide skims too much for themselves & their investors, the FLOSS "Lifters" will balk&walk, which in turn would ruin Tide's subscriber pitch,so greed should be self-limiting?
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