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Working in Public: The Making and Maintenance of Open Source Software Highlight

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it’s not a donation: it is asking a customer to pay money for a product. What, then, is the product? It is not, in fact, any one article (a point that is missed by the misguided focus on micro-transactions). Rather, a subscriber is paying for the regular delivery of well-defined value.

— Nadia Eghbal

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