Open source takes continued investment, and that must be subsidized somehow

Re:Open source takes continued investment, and that must be ... by luord on Wednesday August 22, 2018 @11:45PM (#17824403)

> they will have a bad time trying to do the same is either confusing or disingenuous depending on how charitable you want to be.

How? For me the interpretation is straightforward: if you create OSS in the hopes of making money from it, you might succeed but the odds are overwhelmingly against you.

Ultimately, the only success guaranteed when you open source a piece of code is the fact that you... Open sourced a piece of code. There's now a new library/tool/application out in the world for everyone to see.

That's how I interpreted the other comment, and I wasn't even too charitable.

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Re:Open source takes continued investment, and that must be ... by raquo on Thursday August 23, 2018 @12:09AM (#17824514)

Even if you launch a startup you have the odds heavily stacked against you making money. That's just the nature of such variable return endeavours and has nothing to do with OSS.

In my sibling comments I explained more about disagreeing with the starving artist vs business enterprise false dichotomy.

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