Agreed. The question is OK (at large, what is the difference between free as beer and free as speech) and it remains the main issue that open source business model has to address and clearly explain. The code is just the seed for a service. You charge for the difference.
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1/ That last line is the assumption that I think needs more scrutiny. What has actually happened in practice is that the vast majority of the work has been shouldered by me and my partner. The key benefit in OSS for us has been a few great ideas that were contributed and we get
3/ To be clear, the contributions we've gotten have been great. Really great! But we're talking about hundreds of thousands of dollars to break even here for two people.
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@topazlabs should hire you to develop a deoldify 2.0 turbo, a kind o camera raw on AI. It will need more people and more resources, that's why I tought of TopazThanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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[1] I trust you. And every open source project has its own narrative. I recently read a paper saying that OSS code is more expensive than usual code because, instead of coding "fast and dirty", it is build from day one as something that will last and get studied.
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[2] So... I wish you the best... and I keep thinking that OSS business model is not that simple, neither from inside, nor for the audience ;)
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