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Re:GPSLogger has been removed from the Play Store, and devel... by tetris11 on Friday October 09, 2020 @10:48PM (#24736369)
Maybe, but the GPL license is suggestive that the author started and continued to work on this project because it was seen as a genuine benefit to others, and for many years that was enough to keep them going.

Sure financial incentive would have greased the wheels, but it might have undermined the spirit of the project in the first place

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Re:GPSLogger has been removed from the Play Store, and devel... by unishark on Saturday October 10, 2020 @01:03AM (#24736799)
People generally pay for products in order to get a benefit. It's still genuine.

The difference is the seller gets to share some of the benefit.

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Re:GPSLogger has been removed from the Play Store, and devel... by theamk on Saturday October 10, 2020 @12:07PM (#24739859)
The human mind is funny this way: sometimes getting small amounts of money is worse than not getting money at all.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Overjustification_effect

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