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Why won't you build any meaningful community ? If you only charge from big companies , why does it matter for some lone developer? And as for big companies , a
by petra 6y ago
Why won't you build any meaningful community ? If you only charge from big companies , why does it matter for some lone developer?
And as for big companies , as long as there's decent value and reasonable fees, why won't they contribute(to also help themselves) ?
- ghaff 6y agoMany big companies (especially vendors) do contribute with people and otherwise--because, as you say, it does often help themselves--and most significant developers of major open source projects are doing it as part of their day job. There's a long history of licenses in the PC freeware/shareware space of being only for personal use/educational use/etc. That usage-based restrictions did not make it into the FOSS world is an important reason that it's been so successful IMO.