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Originally Posted by tater
You DO. Any software you buy without DRM has the associated losses to piracy built into the price. Nothing is free. Nothing. Someone pays, or it doesn't happen.
Open source? How on Earth to the devs feed their kids under that model? I'm serious, enlighten me. I'm not a shill for this OSP crap in case you haven't been reading my posts, BTW. I'm not buying because of the possible limitations to me playing (assuming there is ever a fleet boat version since I don't do u-boats).
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be assured I know your posts and your point of view in this matter and my former post was not intended insulting you.
how open source can survive?
easy to say:
they deliver the SW with great manuals, you'll get tech-support if wished and paid, they even offer educational training to you and your employees if wished. this all is not for free. but the core-SW is. and this SW isn't built just by a close-knit dev-team, no! there are several thousend programmers the world over who work in the progress of this specific SW.
this is (in short) their business-models.
some examples of companies which are (partly) involved:
IBM, RedHat, Novell, Sun, etc .....
but there are (thousands of) smaller ones as well
edit: adding some of the applications
Firefox, Thunderbird, OpenOffice, Apache, ....
and of course a lot of opering systems like: Solaris, Suse, Mandriva, ubuntu, etc