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Re:On paying for software by progval on Sunday June 10, 2018 @04:30PM (#17280007)
> No individual can pay that much and the develop should rather get a day job

You could create a cooperative of users that hires one or two developers to work for all of them.

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Re:On paying for software by shoo on Sunday June 10, 2018 @07:51PM (#17280785)
this is probably not too dissimilar from starting a business that grows a collection of users willing to pay fees to receive custom patches / support for the open source software
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