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You can't separate the "if you're not paying" line from the "for-profit company" and apply it to the free/open source project.
by TheCapn 6y ago
You can't separate the "if you're not paying" line from the "for-profit company" and apply it to the free/open source project.
- vorpalhex 6y agoWell someone is still paying for opensource.. the maintainers and developers. The contributors. They're mostly paying with time, but there's some direct cost too. It's why we want to be good users of open source and contribute back, whether that's donating or helping write documentation, manage issues, etc. The cost of open source is the direct cost - what it takes to build an adblocker in this case. The cost of a for-profit product is the direct cost and the profit margin - a higher number in every situation. Instead of the for profit company paying that, it's some external party and if that isn't you it's.. well, still somebody. As the saying goes, if you aren't the customer, you're the product.