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> it would make it even more difficult to build businesses and make money from open source software Yes, isn't that kind of the point?

• dllthomas 12y ago
  Not in the slightest. If people are able to get paid for what they do, they're able to invest quite a bit more time and attention to doing it. Ideally, people could get paid for their development of software based on how useful others find it, without the collapse of value that comes from artificially making it scarce. There's nothing that guarantees that's a reachable ideal, though...