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Does it have to be closed source for the Patreon? A significant amount of open source developers have their own successful Patreon. And it's freely downloadable
by dtech 9y ago
Does it have to be closed source for the Patreon? A significant amount of open source developers have their own successful Patreon. And it's freely downloadable so it's not like that is the Patreon incentive.
- kakarot 9y agoI imagine they made that choice with the intention of preventing others from wrestling control from the devs with a libre fork at the early stages of development when they weren't sure just how much money they would make through Patreon. The release cycle favors Patreon subscribers by a week or two. As compatibility rounds out, this will be less of a draw. It's a little similar to how PJ64 did things for a while with their donor system, except AFAIK PJ64 is still closed source.
- ReverseCold 9y agoThe Patreon "subscribers" get updates a week before it is released for free. Updates are always really good too, something that you would want to have a week early.
- epigramx 9y agoLet's be honest, if they open sourced it, even if it was a restricted form of open sourcing, it would spawn a kazillion of forks, some of them bad forks for fraudulent practices for piracy and the profits will plummet. Occam's razor. Don't overthink it, it's just more profitable that way and the probability of open sourcing it making it more profitable is very minuscule in practice.