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Open source devs consider making hogs pay for every Git pull (www.theregister.com)
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Opinion: Careless big-time users are treating FOSS repos like content delivery networks

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[–] SubArcticTundra@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 day ago

Looks like a self-enforcing tax rate (comparable to price floor) has at least been proposed:

[...] have proposed having owners self-assess the value of their property under penalty of having to sell at this self-assessed value.111 This has the simultaneous effect of forcing truthful valuations for taxation and of forcing turnover of underutilized or monopolized assets to broader publics.

From https://plurality.net/read/5-7/