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Comment by slopinthebag

13 days ago

most oss is written with the expectation of no financial reward. there is more to life than money.

not to mention there are alternative revenue sources anyways.

>most oss is written with the expectation of no financial reward.

Most open source software is written by corporations which have a complimentary motive. Think hardware manufacturers writing drivers because it makes their products more saleable or Google writing Go because they needed a systems programming language.