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all services - do people still pay for code? i.e. commercial libraries

or has open source finally killed that business model?



I wish there more open-source libs offering commercial options. I don't want to see libraries I depend on being abandoned. Might also want to have access to support. I'm sure there are many companies who would pay and still want the project to be open source and have an active community. Sidekiq is one example of this which seem to be going quite well. I think it is a problem that very important projects are being developed for fun after work (openssl anyone). While I do not want the "pay for all libs" like in the .net world I do hope to see more for-profit open source projects.


Not everyone is a startup working with node or RoR. Most companies with more than a handful of staff would rather pay someone else to make sure it doesn't break.


Jenkins is the only free software on the list, and it's listed with a payment next to it?


Developers need to eat, pay for living, kids school, ...


Yes, developers still want to eat (strangely enough).




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