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Copyleft licenses are not “restrictive”
(drewdevault.com)
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this post was submitted on 02 May 2024
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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.
And this is how we got everything must be online/subscription or everything is a web app. And people complain about that too.
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.