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Sean-Der on Feb 4, 2019 | parent | context | favorite | on: If Software Is Funded from a Public Source, Its Co...

Country A isn't losing anything by allowing others to use it. Even if no one contributes back developers can spend that time doing other valuable work, rather then re-invent the wheel in every country around the world.

de_watcher on Feb 5, 2019 [–]

Country A has to pay more for development because the company won't be payed again for this software by countries B and C.

So to start the FOSS process there is a need to somehow have for each niche a GPL software base that cuts costs by a lot.

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