Reply to post: Re: Open Source Won ... and you lost.

Closed source? Pull the other one... We love open source, but not enough to share code for our own app, says GitHub

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Re: Open Source Won ... and you lost.

Someone doesn't like your answer, even though it's correct. It's undeniably true that at least 99.99% of OSS will never return a penny to the author. I think some people still try to argue the "free spirit" notion, but back in the early 2000's when large corps. started "supporting" OSS, we all saw the hijack coming. Amazon is an example of OSS abuse to the max. Once the word profit hits the mix, that's what it becomes about, regardless of anyone's free spirit notion.

Making money in the OSS realm is about as probable as making money in professional billiards. There's so many fat vultures surrounding the road of OSS that it makes you wondering if crossing that road is really the best direction.

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