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Thoughts on Post-Open Source?
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Companies use open source software because it's the cheapest option. It's all about margins.
Yes, and FOSS can get a lot more funding if they charged companies even a little bit.
So as long as it's cheaper to pay a fee to continue to use an open-source software than it is to hire a group of developers to produce and maintain the same thing, the idea is viable.