Comment by z3t4

It's hard to sell air, until you compress it and put it in a tank. And it's hard to sell sand, until you put it in a bag. So the air and sand is free, but then it varies: Open core, dual licenses, packed with proprietary software, license clause's, etc. Why not just ask for a license fee? And why can't something be open source when it's not free as in free beer? So yes, what I mean is there are open source software that is not free as in libre, and there are open source software that are not free as in free beer. So why can't this software be called open source, when the source is... open? Open source comes with many advantages, not just that it's free as in free beer but also that you can fix issues yourself, and it makes it easier to create plugins, mods, etc.