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Originally Posted by Extreme Coder  But if the source is available to you without buying the software, that means that you could get the source, compile it and run it without having to pay anything at all. Which in turn could make the software's sales go down heavily. Would you mind explaining that to my (apparently) tiny brain?
Also, which software out there follows this type of selling mechanism?
Extreme Coder |
Red Hat. MySQL. These are rather notable examples.
In these examples, you pay for support.
Another business model can be found by looking historically; rms programmed custom stuff for emacs for $250 an hour.