> because code is download-once, use-forever, but data is continuously changing and costs perpetual money to update and maintain. Not just the data, but also h

> because code is download-once, use-forever, but data is continuously changing and costs perpetual money to update and maintain. Not just the data, but also hosting the service and keeping it available. Open source works because the marginal cost of code is essentially zero. But the marginal cost of serving users is definitely not zero.