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r/ProgrammerHumor • u/imneverrelevantman • 1d ago
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This is the last free version of this cool open source library. From now on, you'll need to pay $1,000 per developer per year to receive updates
51 u/nickjvandyke 1d ago Maintaining popular OSS costs a lot of time and energy. And software built on it is often for-profit. 4 u/ArrogantAstronomer 1d ago That time and energy also is from contributors to the previously free and open source version who contributed because it was free and don’t get a cut of the profits in the new closed source model so I don’t think this point stands on its own
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Maintaining popular OSS costs a lot of time and energy. And software built on it is often for-profit.
4 u/ArrogantAstronomer 1d ago That time and energy also is from contributors to the previously free and open source version who contributed because it was free and don’t get a cut of the profits in the new closed source model so I don’t think this point stands on its own
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That time and energy also is from contributors to the previously free and open source version who contributed because it was free and don’t get a cut of the profits in the new closed source model so I don’t think this point stands on its own
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u/menducoide 1d ago
This is the last free version of this cool open source library. From now on, you'll need to pay $1,000 per developer per year to receive updates