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The author does not claim selling gedit binaries is illegal. Only that it is unfair. The rational is that it uses someone else's free (as in free beer) work an
by progval 9y ago
The author does not claim selling gedit binaries is illegal. Only that it is unfair.
The rational is that it uses someone else's free (as in free beer) work and sells it with very little added work.
- pjmlp 9y agoWhich is why there is little to nothing money to be made with desktop related software, with FOSS development model.
- progval 9y agoOsmAnd+ managed to have more than 100k paid installs (according to Google) while being open source: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=net.osmand.plus https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=net.osmand.plu... For most people, it is easier to pay than to compile software.
- pjmlp 9y agoAndroid is not a desktop and has a store model.
- dTal 9y agoConsidering you can freely download fully functional builds from F-Droid, that's more likely a consequence of ignorance than laziness. Is it ethical to profit from ignorance? Especially when others chose not to profit from yours? What about when that ignorance is harmful to your ideals?
- khedoros1 9y agoJust takes one person to buy it and publish the modified source somewhere else.
- squarefoot 9y ago"The author does not claim selling gedit binaries is illegal. Only that it is unfair." Agreed but it depends on what services you add to that piece of code, and in any case good information about the open nature of what is sold can help.