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Why is open-source "cheap"?

It seems like you look at the cost of things only through the lens of licensing and not the cost of people to run/maintain them.

I have nothing against OSS per se, but in my experience, the financial analysis of OSS vs paid software is much more subtle.



the cost of the people is represented by it not being "easy"




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