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Free beer was always implied. There's nothing in OSS licenses that prevents people charging for OSS software. But also absolutely nothing whatsoever that encour
by jillesvangurp 4y ago
Free beer was always implied. There's nothing in OSS licenses that prevents people charging for OSS software. But also absolutely nothing whatsoever that encourages that or requires people to honor such a commitment. Kind of the whole point.
It's very easy to undercut 8.99. Just compile the binary once and distribute it via any of a wide variety of download services. The marginal cost of that is close to zero when amortized over lots of users. So close that it might as well be zero.
"important for everyone in FOSS to charge Apple owners"
OK, thanks for making my point for me.