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by tonyedgecombe 1685 days ago
It's a good example but I can't help feeling that we would end up with a much smaller ecosystem if that was how all software was funded.

I work in a very narrow niche selling B2B and my experience tells me it just wouldn't be viable if it was open source. I'd end up selling support which is not how I want to work.