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No. The number one quality of open source software is the extremely low friction. If I'm doing a project, I don't have to worry if I'm using three or 200 plugin
by mseebach 14y ago
No. The number one quality of open source software is the extremely low friction. If I'm doing a project, I don't have to worry if I'm using three or 200 plugins/libraries/components, and I don't have to justify that I'm only using 1% of one of them, or that plugin Z is actually better than plugin Y, but uses library T that I've already paid for.
The main cost of commercial software licensing generally isn't the monetary cost, it's the friction leading to all these annoying tradeoff evaluations.
That said, I think "we", the collective group of people who makes money off the back of open source software projects, probably could be a lot better at throwing some money at developers of the software we use.