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I have something that looks like that. Mine is a bone mounted hearing aid. Usually there’s a little device plugged into it.

At which point if I'm expected to give a dollar to each of them, then I'm basically screwed. I've seen some licenses trying to claim "1% of your revenue if you use my package"... But if I use 1000 of them I now owe 10x my revenue to a bunch of "leftpad" libraries?

Or am I somehow supposed to give like... 10000 3 penny donations? How would that even work? The costs to "donate" a dollar to someone with modern banking (once the CC and whatever donation site takes their cut) almost makes it not worth it.

Especially once indirect dependencies get pulled in (which is a large part of the FOSS ecosystem... tons of people use ffmpeg without ever realizing they are) how does that work? If I use a library, and that library suddenly adds 20 more dependencies, do I need to shell out $20? Or am I as a maintainer supposed to divvy up any donations I get to every library I used (I bet you used a compiler to build whatever your tool is).

It's rough, and I don't see it really working for anything but a few special snowflake projects. It's just not workable at the scale FOSS has turned into. A blessing a curse I suppose.

Is this true? All the news I’ve seen is that Wade resigned but Willis will stay on. If they both quit, that’s huge news I would expect someone to be reporting.

That sounds like indifference to me. They are “fine” with wrecking stuff, but that’s not their goal. Their goal is more power, more money, more… whatever. They are 100% indifferent to the countries welfare. At least that’s what it feels like to me. It’s definitely still bad, as indifference to other peoples suffering is a pretty crappy way to be.