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On 2024-05-14, Andrzej Matuch <andrzej@matu.ch> wrote:
> On Mon, 13 May 2024 22:54:36 +0000, Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote:
>
>> On 13 May 2024 12:14:27 GMT, Andrzej Matuch wrote:
>> 
>>> ... explain how it is the _software_ that is making them money,
>>> and not the _support_ for that software.
>> 
>> It is the support that is making the money. That is the point, after
>> all.
>> 
>> Ever heard of “give away the razor, sell the razorblades”? That’s how
>> Free Software works.
>
> So, it would be beneficial to open-source developers to make sure that 
> their software breaks easily and crashes, so as to sell the support. 
> Gotcha.

Yeah, that would be brilliant, because customers would flock by the droves 
to useless, crap software... But you may have something, people keep using 
crap Microsoft Windows even though their "customers" are really Microsoft's 
unpaid beta testers.

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