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What are your thoughts? Any counter-counter points to the author’s response to most concerns regarding open source?
What are your thoughts? Any counter-counter points to the author’s response to most concerns regarding open source?
You can build a business model on selling it, but you can’t stop someone else doing the same.
Which means in the long run the cost will get down to 0.
The moment the code and redistribution rights are out in the open, anyone who tries to charge for it faces competition from people charging less — and eventually from people charging nothing. The economic pressure pushes the price down to the cost of copying, which in the digital world is effectively zero.