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An example is custom software development. I've worked in a couple of companies where all software was Free, and most was published publicly. The difference is that we didn't sell a product, but a service: developing something that didn't exist yet.

I think that we would see much more of this is proprietary software didn't exist. But of course, re-selling the same development over and over and over again is much more profitable, so it's hard to compete with that.




Who paid for the service?


A large variety of companies, from one-person design studios to multinationals like Siemens, and even a few individuals.

They all needed software that fit their needs, and none minded that we shared any generic components we built to accomplish it.

If we want to know more, the companies I worked for were members of the https://odoo-community.org/




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