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This is a distinction without a difference.
by clcaev 5y ago
This is a distinction without a difference.
- AnthonyMouse 5y agoThere is actually a difference. The person who wants a change can pay you, or anyone else, to implement it. Then everyone gets it, but you still get paid for it. Which is actually a sustainable business model. One corporation pays you $5000 for change A, another pays you $3500 for change B, an individual pays you $100 for small change C, you make $8600 this month and the whole world gets A, B and C. In theory you might now have corporation A waiting for someone else to pay for the change instead of paying for it themselves, but if the change to them is worth $10,000/month and waiting for somebody else to do it causes them to have to wait five years, how does the math work out for them on that?
- warkdarrior 5y agoThe other nice thing about OSS is that I, as the user of the software, can look across the whole labor market for a developer to add a feature I want to the OSS package, without having to rely on the original OSS developer(s). This way I can save lots of money!