undefined | Better HN

0 pointshiAndrewQuinn0y ago0 comments

Europe doesn't "obviously" make much more sense than anywhere else for FOSS. I know of no law in the US that says e.g. you can't license software under BSD-3 without a notarization or whatever.

More importantly, the comparison you are drawing equates the "American viewpoint" of aiming to maximize profits directly to the goal of aiming to minimize cost to the end consumer. As in: "Yeah, our customers have to pay $30 instead of $20 a year now that we're EU-based, but so what? We're not in it to maximize profits." Excuse me?

0 comments

1 comments · 1 top-level

diggan0y ago

> Europe doesn't "obviously" make much more sense than anywhere else for FOSS. I know of no law in the US that

It's not about laws, but about the community. If you're building a community and organization that is 100% about serving a specific community (in this case FOSS), then it makes sense to be wherever that community is strongest and healthiest, so in this case Europe. Regardless of laws.

> As in: "Yeah, our customers have to pay $30 instead of $20 a year now that we're EU-based, but so what? We're not in it to maximize profits." Excuse me?

That's you're still thinking in terms of "customers" and charging people higher/lower just makes it more obvious how Americans are constantly focused on profits and money. I don't see how that made up argument is even applicable here, care to explain without any more contrived examples?

j / k navigate · click thread line to collapse