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17 sats \ 1 reply \ @her OP 12h \ parent \ on: Open source product is a marketing tool devs
Depends on what you mean when you say "pen source for profit"
Open source product that is not paid enough is a threat, because its maintainer will do one of:
- will abandon a project and leave it with no maintenance. It may lead users to any problems, including a security problems
- will inject ads/malware to sell out their users
Any project that have money only with donations of users is doomed to stay on this way. Actually this is why you can find a nice open source project, go to issues to file a bug and be ignored by maintainer. It's because maintainer have not enough motivation to solve your problem. Even if you would pay $100, that's just not enough.
Project that makes enough money can afford it to maintain a code base and develop new features long time, and completely ignore temptations to sell their users for dozens thousand dollars.
Basically, this is why stacker news looks cool for me - they make money for every user post, and it looks like nice stimulus to maintain a site.
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