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Paying people to work on open source is good actually (jacobian.org)

submitted 9 months ago by [email protected] to c/programming

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (1 children)

I meant that free software is inherently can't have a price. Even if you provide source code only to your users, they are free to share that source code for free.

Thus there can't be piracy because piracy of free software is inherently allowed.

And if you try to prevent your users from sharing the source either legally or with drm - you add restrictions to software, making it less free for your users.

The recent situation with RedHat provides good demonstration and example of this.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago

Yes, the users can redistribute however they like. That doesn't stop you charging an initial fee (and most people would probably rather get software from the official source)