> Why would I provide a service for free when I could do it for cash The article is not saying you should, its saying that open source the code you are selling

> Why would I provide a service for free when I could do it for cash The article is not saying you should, its saying that open source the code you are selling, it might not hurt sales at all, in fact it may improve them, I work for a software vendor (couchbase) where a lot of customers wouldnt even consider using a product that was not open source, but are still willing to pay. > We are talking about software, not food or clothing. Digital goods are not physical goods so the comparison is irrelevant. it is not irrelevant, freelance web developers have not lost their jobs because of the billions(+) of html/css/js code that is out there, they are paying for the process in which you came up with that code, then they give it to everyone for free, as all websites do. > That is purely conjecture. I think the burden of proof is on you here, open source is the base in which pretty much everything has been built, including this website, the web server it sits on, the programming language it was written in, the operating system that runs on, and more than likely the browser you are viewing it in.