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If the software is open then anyone can fork it, make it easier, more flexible, better in any way. So your support fee better be low enough that no one is motiv
by kgwxd 8y ago
If the software is open then anyone can fork it, make it easier, more flexible, better in any way. So your support fee better be low enough that no one is motivated to do that instead of paying for support, and also hope no one ever does it just because they can and dont care about money.
- mcguire 8y agoCould you name some products where this had happened?
- UncleMeat 8y agoBCH. Led to a meaningful drop in the price of BTC after the fork.
- seba_dos1 8y agoI don't think you can compare forking a blockchain with forking a free software project. Blockchain is just data and there are various wallets already available, so it didn't matter that the FLOSS code of the original wallet has been forked as much as the blockchain fork did.
- kgwxd 8y agoJDK maybe?