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Few people, in practice, have been able make a living selling pure GPLv3 software. Indeed it’s not strictly impossible but it’s extremely difficult under normal
by School-Cotton 4y ago
Few people, in practice, have been able make a living selling pure GPLv3 software. Indeed it’s not strictly impossible but it’s extremely difficult under normal conditions.
Even most of the vendors of free software today (e.g. Confluent) are using some kind of SaaS or open core model.
- chii 4y agoto sell something that is infinitely, freely replicated, means you must also add some value to the object being sold. Unlike physical objects, where the sale accounts for the cost of production of material etc, what value does someone trying to sell a GPLv3 software add? I argue that the added value is zero, and hence, the price must be zero as well.