Comment by XCSme
1 day ago
In my case, I decided not to go to open-source at all, and simply sell the old-school way with one-time licenses. You buy the product, you have it.
I like open source, and open source projects, but that shouldn't be the only way to do things. Sometimes building a project is a lot of hard work, and if someone finds value in your project, supporting it is the normal thing to do.
Also, doing proper open-source is not easy. You can of course publish your code online, but making the project easy to install, run, maintain, understand, well documented and with good support for running on many types of servers/devices is not easy. There are so many open-source projects that start well, then they end up having tens of thousands of opened issues that will never be fixed. This also leads to the project ending up being a jack of all trades and master of none, because you try to satisfy everyone and all use-cases.
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