Bluntly put companies are widely not investing. Investment happens far more locally than it does at a national level, which means getting local communities reignited should be a core concern.
I wonder if it is not something that could be addressed by RC, maybe indirectly. I'm just thinking out loud, but perhaps it could help to come up with a "Ruby Central License", with which large companies are required to pay for using and, say, 40% goes to RC and 60% to maintainers. This way some money goes to RC from companies and maintainers are freed up from the licensing headache. I'm not sure if it's legally viable though.
That aside, something deep inside me is strongly against "yeah, we can't make the companies pay so try to move the burden to individual people, because it's easier". I understand this is not what you are trying to do, but it is what is generally happening.
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I wonder if it is not something that could be addressed by RC, maybe indirectly. I'm just thinking out loud, but perhaps it could help to come up with a "Ruby Central License", with which large companies are required to pay for using and, say, 40% goes to RC and 60% to maintainers. This way some money goes to RC from companies and maintainers are freed up from the licensing headache. I'm not sure if it's legally viable though.
That aside, something deep inside me is strongly against "yeah, we can't make the companies pay so try to move the burden to individual people, because it's easier". I understand this is not what you are trying to do, but it is what is generally happening.