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This is Jehan Pages, the top developer behind GIMP, a free open source photo editor. Adobe executives hate Jehan. Because of his hard work, Adobe lost millions of dollars (lemmy.world)
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[–] 3 points 10 months ago (3 children)

to make money from software, a company needs to build a “moat”.

No. There are other ways.

I've paid more for Free Software licensed software voluntarily than I ever did for proprietary software with its moats. Largely because they have no moat.

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  • [–] 1 point 10 months ago (2 children)

    And has that made the people selling that software rich? No.

    My point is that to get rich making software you need a moat. You can still make a bit of money without it, but it will be a fraction of what you can make if you can use intellectual property laws to make sure you don't have to worry about competitors.

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