Every other company is free to sponsor FOSS development too. You’re saying that like Microsoft and Windows aren’t already a defacto monopoly. Charge a FOSS contribution fee instead of the Windows license, done, Linux development sponsored by the manufacturers is solved and they too get to not get steamrolled by Microsoft.
Every other company is free to sponsor FOSS development too. You’re saying that like Microsoft and Windows aren’t already a defacto monopoly. Charge a FOSS contribution fee instead of the Windows license, done, Linux development sponsored by the manufacturers is solved and they too get to not get steamrolled by Microsoft.