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Comment on "I support it only if it's open source" should be a more common viewpoint

balder1991@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

You’re allowed, but as long as anyone else can do it for free, you can’t build a business model on selling it. At most you can sell something else (support, cloud compute, some solution that makes using it easier etc.).

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hperrin@lemmy.ca ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
I don’t know why you’re getting downvoted. What you said is true.

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- balder1991@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
  It reminded me of an older writing about it:
  
  Open source doesn’t make money because it wasn’t designed to make money
  
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Knock_Knock_Lemmy_In@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
You can build a business model on selling it, but you can’t stop someone else doing the same.

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- balder1991@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
  Which means in the long run the cost will get down to 0.
  
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NukeNPave@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
Canonical seems to make some decent money off of their services.

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