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Discussion on: When will we start paying for open source modules?

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Thomas Reggi

Wow, thank you Pazvanti for your wise and well worded response. I've been considering the current crypto-craze and thinking about digital commodities and the world of Non-fungible tokens (NFT's). For some reason my mind is trying to create value / worth in all things that we currently deem as free. I value your insight and I do I think you're right, this will never happen as I described, it's to cumbersome.

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pazvanti

There are ways to monetize open-source projects. People that work on them need to get paid as well and it is a big industry. There are many licenses available or maybe even partial-openness.
The big problem, for any project/product, is not getting the money, is making something useful enough that people or companies want to pay.