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Transmission ARM no longer free?
just wonder why i have to pay for this open source software?
Thank you for taking the plunge and addressing my questions. I might sound a like a troll here, please trust me when I say I'm not; just trying to find out how I can make my new NAS provide the same things my 4+ years MSS offered, without an extra fee.
The majority of GPL development is for free. Although not illegal or unethical, I find that porting GPL apps for a fee is not of my taste, considering the huge development effort made by the, say, rtorrent maker, especially after receiving upstream bug reports for all rtorrent-running platforms out there. GPL itself was made to discourage selling derivative works, by including clauses to propagate the same terms to derivations of the derivatives...
As for the small size of the userbase here: a lot of other platforms are not that much larger, yet they have a large port/package selection for every purpose.
I'd better continue discussion on the other thread though, better stop hijacking the thread here :)
The majority of GPL development is for free. Although not illegal or unethical, I find that porting GPL apps for a fee is not of my taste, considering the huge development effort made by the, say, rtorrent maker, especially after receiving upstream bug reports for all rtorrent-running platforms out there. GPL itself was made to discourage selling derivative works, by including clauses to propagate the same terms to derivations of the derivatives...
As for the small size of the userbase here: a lot of other platforms are not that much larger, yet they have a large port/package selection for every purpose.
I'd better continue discussion on the other thread though, better stop hijacking the thread here :)
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