Re:Playing the Open Source Game
by yakubin on Tuesday April 13, 2021 @07:27AM
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> I will give it two decades max, for everything to get back to the old way of selling software.
It would be nice to get back to Turbo Pascal-like and old Adobe business models, instead of the divide between subscriptions and free (as in beer) open source funded by a bigcorp making money from something else. So I'll take that.
Re:Playing the Open Source Game
by pjmlp on Tuesday April 13, 2021 @07:46AM
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That is easy actually, many just have to do like in other professions and pay for their tools, instead of expecting to be paid, while the authors of their tools need to survive from charity.
It would be nice to get back to Turbo Pascal-like and old Adobe business models, instead of the divide between subscriptions and free (as in beer) open source funded by a bigcorp making money from something else. So I'll take that.