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If we're talking about "how do you pay for it," then there are not just two models. Closed source products can be sold outright, rented, subsidized via ads, so

If we're talking about "how do you pay for it," then there are not just two models. Closed source products can be sold outright, rented, subsidized via ads, some combination of those, and more. They can even be given away as tax write-offs or loss leaders or somesuch. All of those models also exist for open source products! It turns out that customers aren't paying for source access so much as they're paying for working software. No one can agree about what "quality" actually is. Mostly, it's a word used as a weapon whenever someone wants to bully change into happening. Or not happening, for that matter. But a weapon either way.

jrm4 3y ago
Of course, I didn't mean to suggest that there were only two at all, just that "here are two that DON'T work for this." Good point on "quality," it makes a lot of sense to try to look at the thing we're talking about here without talking about "quality" or "software." There are problems and opportunities in this technological space; what good ways are there to handle those, noting that much of the work that needs to get done for them isn't likely to occur without payment? Something like that.