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Re:Siyuan: Privacy-first, self-hosted personal knowledge man... by oefrha on Thursday December 26, 2024 @08:34PM (#42519257)
I know there are some open source Mac apps sold for a couple bucks but you can also build for yourself.

That said, I assumed it’s fairly well-trodden mostly because FSF for as long as I can remember approved/recommended something along the lines of selling builds but completely opening the source. I guess RHEL arguably falls into the camp as well, but they sell more than builds.

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Re:Siyuan: Privacy-first, self-hosted personal knowledge man... by jraph on Thursday January 02, 2025 @02:07AM (#42572406)
Ok, got it!

I believe the FSF points about selling software come from a time where you sold the medium (like floppy disks) with the software: you had to allow doing this because it was not practical to spread software without doing this and not costing (too much) to the author.

I don't really think it's practical advice for the present, they were never really business model specialists.

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