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You can't charge money for distributing GPL software because with high speed internet that is very cheap and easy to do. Competition will and has brought that c
by njarboe 6y ago
You can't charge money for distributing GPL software because with high speed internet that is very cheap and easy to do. Competition will and has brought that cost to about zero. And that is a good thing. Everyone now has free access to a huge amount software with source code.
- tsimionescu 6y agoSo how can a software company make money, in an ideal world where all code is free?
- njarboe 6y agoIn software support, training, and adding/fixing bugs for a fee. Redhat was a large company that did this. If the world stabilized on a few software products that did what people wanted to do, like and office suite, that would be great. No more work needs to be done on it. Just a little maintenance going forward. Like roads. They cost a lot to build, but little to allow someone to drive on them.