Questions tagged [economics]
Questions about the economics of free and open-source software
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How to fairly distribute a sum of money among the most relevant FLOSS projects to a codebase?
I'm facing a dilemma. As a independent software developer and vendor, I code and sell the product of my work making some profit out of it. It's not much, it won't make me rich, but it's enough to make ...
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Why should software be free when housing, education, groceries, books, movies, music and utilities are not? [closed]
As a programmer, I always felt unconvinced by the slogan that "all software should be free". Why should software be free when housing, education, groceries, books, movies, music and ...
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