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[โ€“] hemko@lemmy.world 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It's not illegal to make business with open source software

[โ€“] pivot_root@lemmy.world 11 points 1 year ago

It's not illegal, but it's not profitable.

Companies aren't making squat from happy fans donating a token amount to show support of the software. Everything adjacent to the open source software is profitable (enterprise sales, support contracts, hardware, corporate sponsors/funding, and so forth), but you're going to have a really hard time selling something to consumers when they can just as easily get it for free.