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Monetizing open source and free code will cause immense ill-will from developers and users, which would cost more reputation loss than just asking for hardware.
by FrozenVoid 9y ago
Monetizing open source and free code will cause immense ill-will from developers and users, which would cost more reputation loss than just asking for hardware.
- justinclift 9y agoIt's not always that clear cut. While there are definitely bad, ill-will generating ways to generate revenue for Open Source projects... but at the same time there can be positive ways of doing it too. It very much depends on the norms and expectation of the Community around any given project though. :)
- mankash666 9y agoNo it won't. MANY successful open source projects have monetization strategies. Open Source!=Charity. It's just another way to build software. It's also likely that a successfully monetized ope-source software lasts and succeeds longer by most metrics. Cases in point - Android, most Apache foundation projects (including Hadoop) ...