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by melonakos 4229 days ago
Great thoughts and interesting to see your thought process along the way. For quite some time, we have made ArrayFire free for a single GPU usage, dipping a toe in building a user base. We have already started monetizing that free user base over the last several years and we are good at that already. So from a business perspective, we have no margins that are really at risk. We only have more money to make from this move!

And you are right. Too bad we didn't do this long ago!!! Hindsight is 20-20 as they say. I wrote about some of the internal deliberations we had on this decision here: http://notonlyluck.com/2014/07/31/the-decision-to-open-sourc...