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Re:The Simplest App That Makes Money by matheusmoreira on Friday December 23, 2022 @02:33AM (#34103190)
This article made me pretty sad to be honest. This little app made more money in hours than many free software and open source projects do in years.
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Re:The Simplest App That Makes Money by ajkjk on Friday December 23, 2022 @02:37AM (#34103212)
Well that's not quite fair, it was expressly sold and they weren't.
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Re:The Simplest App That Makes Money by ceres on Friday December 23, 2022 @05:01AM (#34104077)
Well, many open source developers are quite content with making their software freely accessible without expectation of monetary gain. In fact some are strongly opposed to it (see uBlock Origin maintainer). And that’s ok too!
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Re:The Simplest App That Makes Money by j245 on Friday December 23, 2022 @06:40AM (#34104729)
> made more money in hours than many free software

You’re sad that free software didn’t make money ?

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Re:The Simplest App That Makes Money by powera on Friday December 23, 2022 @09:44AM (#34106330)
If you can't make $40 off an open-source project in years, you are probably deliberately avoiding accepting money.
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Re:The Simplest App That Makes Money by jrm4 on Friday December 23, 2022 @10:30PM (#34113644)
Probably the weirdest case to study right now is Dwarf Fortress? Did they hit a million yet?
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