Trying to make economic sense of open sourcing livecode

Richmond richmondmathewson at gmail.com
Fri Feb 1 15:17:07 EST 2013


On 02/01/2013 10:11 PM, Mark Schonewille wrote:
> Hi Pete,
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> 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.

Well-said, that man!

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