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A comment on Caddy Proposal: Permanently change all proprietary licensing to open source. Parent comment

Re:Caddy Proposal: Permanently change all proprietary licens... by pjmlp on Friday October 04, 2019 @08:04AM (#21156733)
Popularity doesn't pay bills.
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Re:Caddy Proposal: Permanently change all proprietary licens... by jdnenej on Friday October 04, 2019 @04:23PM (#21161566)
You can not make money selling software to people who have $0 budget to buy it. Sell software to enterprises and give it away for free for OSS side projects.
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Re:Caddy Proposal: Permanently change all proprietary licens... by pjmlp on Friday October 04, 2019 @06:11PM (#21162345)
Apparently before the FOSS wave they had money.
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Re:Caddy Proposal: Permanently change all proprietary licens... by jdnenej on Friday October 04, 2019 @09:08PM (#21163186)
Because enterprises take it for free. The way you can prevent this is to use AGPL licensing and charge money to use it under a comersial license.

The problem is now no one uses your software because there are endless amounts of more permissive open source software available that work just as well.

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