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Originally Posted by natstutor
thank you guys for the great and honest feedbacks.
one thing that confuses me is, almost every response that was made in here is it is all relating to its profitability.
which doesn't aligns with the very definition of "open-source", which in my assumption, im actually referring to FOSS/FSF definitions.
on which the primary concerns are:
1. The freedom to run the program as you wish, for any purpose (freedom 0).
2. The freedom to study how the program works, and change it so it does your computing as you wish (freedom 1). Access to the source code is a precondition for this.
3. The freedom to redistribute copies so you can help others (freedom 2).
4. The freedom to distribute copies of your modified versions to others (freedom 3). By doing this you can give the whole community a chance to benefit from your changes. Access to the source code is a precondition for this.
some of the response even said they are broke or similar... which is sad to hear btw
I was expecting technical people in adult industry are a bit well-off (at least compared to mainstream programmers )
which means they have a bit more time to play around with toy projects and exchange code samples with other developers just for fun
which looks like apparently is not the case...
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Incorrect. I can charge mainstream companies far, far more then I could ever get from adult companies. There's little incentive to do things if they don't make money. If I were to release any sort of free software, it would be with the hope it would drive traffic to my site where someone might purchase something. I've even thought about doing this for some small "helper scripts". That being said, to write something like our tube script is potentially thousands of hours and no one is going to do that for free unless they're like retired and bored or something. A collaboration between developers is also unlikely because it's a small market and we're effectively competing against each other. Those who hire someone other then me is a lost customer for me, and those who hire me instead of someone else is a lost customer for that someone.