Re:Open Source Doesn’t Make Money Because It Isn’t Designed ...
by cthalupa on Tuesday March 19, 2019 @05:18PM
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>At a miniscule fraction of the value they created.
Two things here:
1) In a sane business climate, you will never extract more than some fraction of the value you create. If you receive as much value as you create, then there is no purpose in anyone using whatever you've built, because they gain nothing from it.
2) If your goal is extracting as much of the created value for yourself as possible, open source software licenses are not designed in such a manner as to do so.
If you want to get the same benefits of proprietary software, write proprietary software. There's nothing wrong with doing so.
At a miniscule fraction of the value they created.
These people deserve to have so much money that they can simply work on open source for free, forever. I haven't seen anybody in that position yet.
This isn't even like a musician wherein some record company fronted capital, the companies benefiting from open source didn't front anything for these developers.