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The problem is that paying for open-source software isn't something that people do by default in the normal course of obtaining it, as one does when legally obt
by mwcampbell 10y ago
The problem is that paying for open-source software isn't something that people do by default in the normal course of obtaining it, as one does when legally obtaining proprietary software, a book, music, etc. It's something that you have to deliberately go out of your way to do. Until that problem is solved, most users won't pay for open-source software, even if they'd have no problem doing so in principle.
- davexunit 10y agoConsider that paying for copies of bits isn't viable and that the proprietary software industry must do nasty things to extract money for copies. Programmer time is valuable, and that is where the money is in FOSS. "Would you like feature X? I need $Y to do it."
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