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>> Chrome can't really be sold. Chrome can not be sold for many reasons, being open source is not one of them, nothing prevents the selling of open source so

• ocdtrekkie 6y ago
  Indeed, especially when you have an official/trustworthy solution. For example, you could gate off value-adds for paying customers, whilst still making them open source. Sure, users can remove the "paid user" aspect and either compile it themselves or entrust that process to a third party. But the majority of users would not do so because of the effort or trust involved. (This is similar to movie piracy. Sure, it's trivial to pirate movies and music, but the majority of people pay for them.)