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The open-source comparison is confused. Lots of open-source projects do offer optional commercial licenses or support contracts. And the truly free-as-in-beer p
by mwkaufma 1y ago
The open-source comparison is confused. Lots of open-source projects do offer optional commercial licenses or support contracts. And the truly free-as-in-beer projects either have some kind of grant financing or else the maintainer shoulders the costs until they burn out.
That "nice slogan" is emphatically true.
- latexr 1y ago> Lots of open-source projects do offer optional commercial licenses or support contracts. And lots more don’t. The difference is so large that the ones who do offer commercial support are a rounding error in comparison. > And the truly free-as-in-beer projects either have some kind of grant financing or else the maintainer shoulders the costs until they burn out. Those aren’t the only options, that is a false dichotomy. But even if it were true, it in no way contradicts the argument. > That "nice slogan" is emphatically true. It emphatically is not, and you are ignoring half the argument. You can pay and still be the product.