Get the latest tech news
San Francisco Billboards Call Out Tech Firms For Not Paying For Open Source
An anonymous reader shares a report: Drivers passing through San Francisco have a new roadside distraction to consider: billboards calling out businesses that don't cough up for the open source code that they use. The signs are the work of the Open Source Pledge -- a group that launched earlier this...
An anonymous reader shares a report: Drivers passing through San Francisco have a new roadside distraction to consider: billboards calling out businesses that don't cough up for the open source code that they use. So far, 25 companies have signed up -- but project co-founder Chad Whitacre wants bigger firms to pay their dues, too. Whitacre, whose day job is head of open source at app-monitoring biz Sentry, told The Register his employer has for three years operated a scheme to pay developers who maintain and upgrade open source code.
Or read this on Slashdot
