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by yencabulator 145 days ago
The fewer proprietary abandonwares are in my dependencies the more I can actually do things. It's less about the price and more about the freedom.

From the link:

> Beyond pricing, there’s a deeper concern about durability. Developers are understandably wary of building their entire app strategy on a small company’s paid, closed-source tool.
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nsm 145 days ago
Would you pay for source-available products? GPL and paid license?

Along with a guarantee that you get to keep access to older versions (Jetbrains and Sublime Text models)?

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yencabulator 145 days ago
If it's GPL, it's not really source-available anymore. The dual licensing thing is more to give big companies a cheaper way out than bothering their lawyers.

Me personally, I treat source-available roughly the same as proprietary. I fix bugs in other people's code as suits my needs, and source-available is just hostile to the whole idea of anyone else touching the source.

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cortesoft 145 days ago
Personally, probably not, although I would be more likely to than if I couldn't access the source.

I just don't have a good history with software created and sold by a company. Their incentives rarely seem aligned with mine, and I have had too many rug-pulls to fall for it again.

Companies that start out with sensible and open policies too often struggle to make money, and then end up trying to pull back on their openness and suddenly important bits aren't able to be modified or controlled by the user anymore.

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cornstalks 145 days ago
> Would you pay for source-available products? GPL and paid license?

I'm not GP but I would at least consider it. I say that as someone who refuses to build on closed-source tooling or libraries. I'd even consider closed-source if there was an irrevocable guarantee that the source would be released in its entirety (with a favorable open source license) if the license/pricing terms ever changed or the company ceased to exist or stopped supporting that product.

> Along with a guarantee that you get to keep access to older versions (Jetbrains and Sublime Text models)?

I like that for personal tools but I wouldn't build my products or business on top of those. I've had too much trouble getting old binaries to work on new OS versions to consider these binaries to be usable in the long term.

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