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Re:Purism – Fund Your App by megous on Thursday October 08, 2020 @06:33PM (#24724651)
> Also, why would developers spend time developing for an open platform, when they can make 10X the amount of money on the closed platforms?

Yet, GNU/Linux distros exist with a ton of FOSS software.

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Re:Purism – Fund Your App by amelius on Thursday October 08, 2020 @06:37PM (#24724682)
Yes, but this time it's "free competing with free", or almost-free (or paid for by your personal data, which sadly for most people is equivalent to free).
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