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Re:Ask HN: How to Monetize Open-Source Software? by afarviral on Tuesday May 10, 2022 @09:10AM (#31326669)
Its also a dick-move, and might get you a bad rep as reward for the hard work of forking and maintaining the "free" fork. Seems it'd be more likely a non FOSS competitor stealing some of the IP to make a competing product and take your payed customers.
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Re:Ask HN: How to Monetize Open-Source Software? by pimterry on Tuesday May 10, 2022 @09:43AM (#31327022)
Could also happen! All the core product code is AGPL though (while general-purpose reusable libraries are Apache-2), so there'd have to either go open-source too or take a pretty substantial IP risk in doing so.
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