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#107
Originally Posted by sharper View Post
People pay real money for lots of OSS products for various reasons. I could, for example, take GIMP and make a simply QT UI for it so it runs on the N900, publish the source code but also put a nice productised version up on the Ovi store. Is it unreasonable of me to ask people to pay for that? Am I to be lambasted by the OSS community? Some perhaps who don't understand the relationship between OSS and commercial software.
I just said that that won't keep anyone from putting the software into Maemo Extra, after he paid you for it - that is "the problem" (no, it really isn't) with Open Source software: The business model is not "selling software", but "putting services around software".

I don't see any lambasting there, just a business model where there really isn't one.