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eeZah7Ux on Nov 6, 2019 | parent | context | favorite | on: Re-Licensing Sentry

> I find the distinction between libraries and applications to be rather self serving

It is. It turns libraries into a free commodity and this turns the efforts of developer into unpaid labor for companies selling software or services.

the_mitsuhiko on Nov 6, 2019 [–]

> It is. It turns libraries into a free commodity and this turns the efforts of developer into unpaid labor for companies selling software or services.

I don't think libraries should be unpaid labor — I just don't have an answer for monetizing them. That's the difference.

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