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Re:No More Free Work from Marak: Pay Me or Fork This by rusk on Monday November 09, 2020 @05:09AM (#25033220)
Yep. That's the point. You have the option to use something with a more liberal license, develop something yourself, or pay for it.

Yes, maybe at the end of the day I lose out to potential suitors, customers, collaborators etc. but that's my choice.

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Re:No More Free Work from Marak: Pay Me or Fork This by sokoloff on Monday November 09, 2020 @08:12AM (#25034411)
I don’t think anyone is suggesting that it isn’t your choice.

Most people are likely assuming that the typical author intent behind the decision to open source is to increase usage and contributors over the default closed source/proprietary licensing.

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