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throwa34943way on Sept 14, 2017 | parent | context | favorite | on: Announcing Caddy Commercial Licenses

> Open source has to be subsidized

Yep and Caddy was, $50.000 in 2016 from Mozilla

https://blog.mozilla.org/blog/2016/06/22/mozilla-awards-3850...

always_good on Sept 14, 2017 [–]

You say that like you think they're set for life...

throwa34943way on Sept 14, 2017 | [–]

All I say is Mozilla granting $50.000 on the premise of a project being free software is a lot of money given to a commercial product.

pheeney on Sept 14, 2017 | | [–]

They are still open source right? Or does having a commercial version invalidate what they have open sourced?

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