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A comment on WiX Toolset: Introduce the Open Source Maintenance Fee.

Re:WiX Toolset: Introduce the Open Source Maintenance Fee by codedokode on Friday July 25, 2025 @01:31AM (#44679867)
Open source software used to be an implementation of the principles of communism - everyone contributes whatever they can and uses whatever they need, and money is not necessary anymore. It seems that now people are starting to turn to a capitalism?
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Re:WiX Toolset: Introduce the Open Source Maintenance Fee by robmensching on Friday July 25, 2025 @01:55PM (#44686109)
> everyone contributes whatever they can and uses whatever they need

Yeah, Open Source projects don't work like that in reality. It's far more consumers take what they want and demand what is missing.

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