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Re:Zed AI by jarule on Tuesday August 20, 2024 @07:27PM (#41305134)
Pay-for closed-source is profitable for about a week. Then some asshole offers a shittier but free facsimile and community contributions render it good enough to kill the original.
Re:Zed AI by andrewmcwatters on Tuesday August 20, 2024 @07:57PM (#41305327)
I think we're all pretty familiar with this cycle, but there do exist durable products that don't succumb to this issue within reason and the burden rests on the original authors to find ways to create themselves a moat like any other business.