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Open source has nothing to do with cost. It is entirely possible to do it for cost, but of course adoption may suffer.
by lucian1900 14y ago
Open source has nothing to do with cost. It is entirely possible to do it for cost, but of course adoption may suffer.
- btilly 14y agoOpen source has nothing to do with cost. Item 1 of http://opensource.org/osd http://opensource.org/osd disagrees with you. You may charge anything you like for open source software. But once someone gets it, they are free to redistribute it for any price that they want - including nothing. If your software does not have that property, then it is not open source. (That web page has been up for nearly 15 years, with only minor modification, and the principles of that definition go back farther than the creation of the term "Open Source" as a marketing campaign for free software almost exactly 15 years ago. I've been personally using that term for over 14.5 years.)
- lucian1900 14y agoNo, it doesn't. The fact that someone can redistribute it doesn't mean you don't have the right to charge for it in the first place. This works particularly well for some software when it comes to distributing binaries against cost.
- btilly 14y agoI don't know what you think I said, but your response makes no sense in light of what I said. Please re-read what I wrote, without skipping the sentence, You may charge anything you like for open source software.