Trying to make economic sense of open sourcing livecode

[Mark Schonewille]

Hi Pete,

Yeah, you're missing the point, kind of. Everyone who contributes can also use all contributions by everyone else and when you contribute, you make it more attractive to others to cntribute too. That's the reward of open-source software and there is no reason for any additional compensation.

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On 1 feb 2013, at 21:03, Peter Haworth wrote:

> Thanks Mark.
> 
> As mentioned, I know nothing of C++ so this isn't going to affect me.  But
> it doesn't seem unreasonable that someone who is willing to contribute code
> into a free product might feel like they should be compensated should that
> code be incorporated into a product that costs money.  Or perhaps I'm
> missing the point of open source software.
> 
> Pete
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