Posted by ssddanbrown 12 hours ago
Gumroad is tiny and does not have the economies of scale of Stripe, without knowing their financials this does not say anything at all.
Stripe + Lemon Squeezy was a competitor.
Paddle is a competitor (which I use precisely to avoid having to deal with worldwide regulations) and they charge around 5%.
Gumroad also gives you a marketplace so there's some extra value.
I pay 25% for another marketplace, so 13% is not that crazy if they can bring you traffic.
Heck, the .NET Framework source has been available for eons (referencesource.microsoft.com), but you can't go compile it and build your own .NET Framework distro (Mono is a different story).
Like the issue I think becomes that .net itself was written in .net and so you needed the earlier proprietary versions right?
But Gnu also had a .net compiler and he had actually used it on guix (basically like nix) to really create sort of reproducible .net , I am sure that some reader of this comment will attach the post on which I am talking
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_source
Destroying the meaning of words is an activity for Orwellian villains.
No, that's https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Source-available_software
No, that's not it. What you can do with the source code is just as important as the source code being available.