porridgeraisin 4 days ago

What stops someone else from just offering a download of release builds for free?

I understand FOSS can be financed when the customer is a business, but when it's a user?

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  • morsch 4 days ago

    Nothing, just like nobody stops people from releasing modified builds now in fact people do (waterfox, ...). Trademark law provides a moat, as do fees to get into proprietary app stores.

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  • notpushkin 4 days ago

    Nothing, but it doesn’t work for closed source software either.

    Pirating a FOSS app would probably have less of a psychological barrier, but I think it would be more frowned upon instead. (I won’t judge you if you pirate Photoshop, but pirating Inkscape? Shame on you!) We’ll have to see how it plays out though.

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nottorp 4 days ago

Not enough since you get binary builds. The sibling comment is a solution.

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