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This is like the musician problem. There are so many people willing to play for pretty much nothing or for free that it's very hard for the average musician to

This is like the musician problem. There are so many people willing to play for pretty much nothing or for free that it's very hard for the average musician to make money. On the consumer side, why should you always pay for music when so many people are doing it for free? There's an oversupply of eager musicians making music Same with OSS development. Why should you pay for something if people just do it for free? Doesn't matter who the consumer is. > Solo devs should not write and maintain anything without getting paid. But they do, and they will regardless. And until they stop, nothing will change. There's an oversupply of eager coders coding for free Companies will pay (their own developers) once the OSS solution doesn't work or needs extra extensions that doesn't exist.

vbezhenar 3y ago
> But they do, and they will regardless. And until they stop, nothing will change. There's an oversupply of eager coders coding for free There's no thriving market of OSS apps for iOS. So the solution is simple. Charge some money from developer to allow distribution of his apps. This seem to kill open source attitude very well.
- em-bee 3y ago
  is there a thriving market of FOSS apps on google play? f-droid doesn't count. anyways, here is a list of FOSS apps on IOS: https://dev.to/devfan/a-curated-list-of-open-source-example-ios-apps-developed-in-swift-1cfn https://dev.to/devfan/a-curated-list-of-open-source-example-...