• poVoq@slrpnk.netOP
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    6 months ago

    These days selling the software itself is rarely successful nor a particularly good business model. Basically only computer games still work like that, and the commercially really successful ones not any more either.

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      6 months ago

      And this is how we got everything must be online/subscription or everything is a web app. And people complain about that too.

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      6 months ago

      Hard agree on this. Sell software and services to companies, only sell services to end users. I believe both selling your service as a dev and selling a service behind a free app are compatible with copyleft.