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There was a crowdfunding campaign in 2020 through Kickstarter that only reached 1/10th of its funding goal: https://terrainformatica.com/2020/09/07/open-sourcin
by AlbertoGP 5y ago
There was a crowdfunding campaign in 2020 through Kickstarter that only reached 1/10th of its funding goal: https://terrainformatica.com/2020/09/07/open-sourcing-the-sciter/ https://terrainformatica.com/2020/09/07/open-sourcing-the-sc...
CA$ 100 got you immediate access to the source code under GPL or 4-clause BSD, CA$ 500 got you additionally a lifetime commercial license, etc.
One of their customers commented this:
> If people want good software they should pay for good software It’s simple as that.
> I dont care about bloated electron apps. They are competition.
>
> Sciter gives me a competitive advantage and it going open source kills that.
> As a paying customer I hate that.
Above some critical mass of customers, it might be better off not being open source both for its creator and for its users.