codingandcoding

posting this to see if someone else is also having similar feeling: if cloud providers are selling the open source products, shouldn't the committers get paid as well? I agree that supporting the cloud product has some additional work, but isn't that based on the core product? say, if there's no MySQL, how can RDS work?

I understand the existing open source licenses are not having any constraints on this, but shouldn't there be a new open source license to solve this problem?

the developers wrote the software, they can be used by other persons and companies so long that they are not re-selling the software product itself, especially in the cloud. if they are sold in the cloud, the cloud providers should pay some money back to the developers.

In my personal opinion this could be more fair and may potentially be a better way of open source software development mode.