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"I support it only if it's open source" should be a more common viewpoint (vitalik.eth.limo)
submitted 1 year ago by to c/technology@lemmy.world
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What are your thoughts? Any counter-counter points to the author's response to most concerns regarding open source?

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[–] 8 points 1 year ago (4 children)

You’re allowed, but as long as anyone else can do it for free, you can’t build a business model on selling it. At most you can sell something else (support, cloud compute, some solution that makes using it easier etc.).

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago (1 child)

    You can build a business model on selling it, but you can't stop someone else doing the same.

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  • [–] 0 points 1 year ago*

    Which means in the long run the cost will get down to 0.

    The moment the code and redistribution rights are out in the open, anyone who tries to charge for it faces competition from people charging less — and eventually from people charging nothing. The economic pressure pushes the price down to the cost of copying, which in the digital world is effectively zero.

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