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> Free tools have a predictable and stable cost.

Unless they suddenly turn from free into a $21/month per person fee.




I think he means free as in open source, rather than free as in freeware. In which the worst case scenario is that you are stuck with the last open-source version, but at least you retain full control over your fork of the code and can add features and bug fixes as you see fit.


Indeed. Proprietary/Closed-source but costing $0 is the worst of both worlds.


Then I'll find the fork and use that. We have already done that a few times. There is a reason we audit all the licenses of open source software we have.




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