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So at that point, why not just have all those used-daily projects be sold commercially instead of (or in addition to) being OSS in the first place?



That would be fine, too. But consider the complexity of buying 20 things vs. spending once and disbursing. The value is to reduce the difficulty of being a good person.


That would make collaboration much much more difficult :)




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