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by smoldesu 1363 days ago
Nothing beats free. Stallman wrote a great essay on this called "Who does that server really serve?", decrying the redundancy and ultimate futility of building software-as-a-service. You will always be at-risk of being undercut by a free alternative. Selling software is an anti-pattern of computing, you have every right to be afraid of cheaper/better products wrecking your shop.

https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/who-does-that-server-really-s...