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They used to openly albeit implicitly mock open source software projects taking big VC money, by saying things along the lines of “we have a radical business mo
by tshaddox 5y ago
They used to openly albeit implicitly mock open source software projects taking big VC money, by saying things along the lines of “we have a radical business model where we just charge people to use our product.” Noble, perhaps, and probably a good way to kickstart community good will, but the VC money is undoubtedly a much faster way to scale the fiscal size of the company!
- patates 5y ago> saying things along the lines of “we have a radical business model where we just charge people to use our product.” In the world of web frameworks (or maybe software libraries in general, especially those that deal with the web), I don't think it's wrong to call charging the users radical, while not totally unseen.
- archeroe 5y agoThat's what we call hypocrisy to summarize