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Maybe, but the GPL license is suggestive that the author started and continued to work on this project because it was seen as a genuine benefit to others, and
by tetris11 6y ago
Maybe, but the GPL license is suggestive that the author started and continued to work on this project because it was seen as a genuine benefit to others, and for many years that was enough to keep them going.
Sure financial incentive would have greased the wheels, but it might have undermined the spirit of the project in the first place
- unishark 6y agoPeople generally pay for products in order to get a benefit. It's still genuine. The difference is the seller gets to share some of the benefit.
- theamk 6y agoThe human mind is funny this way: sometimes getting small amounts of money is worse than not getting money at all. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Overjustification_effect https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Overjustification_effect