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Re:Looking for Work After 25 Years of Octave by Swizec on Wednesday February 08, 2017 @09:53PM (#13604243)
Sure, marginal cost is $0, I agree. But building and maintaning huge swathes of million (billion?) dollar infrastructures/architectures for enterprises for free feels somehow more wrong than building a small business that supports a few maintainers' families.

Or as a famous talk once said: fuck you, pay me.

https://creativemornings.com/talks/mike-monteiro--2/1

Re:Looking for Work After 25 Years of Octave by anigbrowl on Thursday February 09, 2017 @01:59AM (#13605200)
Indeed. I'm just making a guess about the motivations of some OSS leaders, and a shallow one at that.