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I believe that the only sustainable model for software that benefits the humanity has to have a profit motive. Even a delayed one, as in the case of the univers

• imiric 2y ago
  That depends on your political beliefs. :) But certainly the free software movement has provided incalculable benefits to humanity, where their authors were not chasing profits. The only reason this is unsustainable _in some cases_ is because we haven't established a good model to support this work yet. There are some attempts with varying success, but even in its current state, I would argue that more good is produced with this model than with one whose primary goal is profit.