Preact: Countering the Perception That Open Source Must Be Free

Re:Preact: Countering the Perception That Open Source Must B... by majormajor on Monday March 13, 2017 @09:11PM (#13864110)

So at that point, why not just have all those used-daily projects be sold commercially instead of (or in addition to) being OSS in the first place?

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Re:Preact: Countering the Perception That Open Source Must B... by javajosh on Monday March 13, 2017 @09:31PM (#13864220)

That would be fine, too. But consider the complexity of buying 20 things vs. spending once and disbursing. The value is to reduce the difficulty of being a good person.

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Re:Preact: Countering the Perception That Open Source Must B... by developit on Monday March 13, 2017 @09:38PM (#13864258)

That would make collaboration much much more difficult :)

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