The cost of open source
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Open source is free to use. It has never been free to make. Open source sits underneath almost every piece of software shipped today. Frameworks, databases, build tools and the libraries inside them are, in large part, written and maintained by people who were never paid to do so. The conversation…
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- 2026-10-08 08:44 · DEV Community — AI
The cost of open source