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To: Jon Stept who wrote (77)12/9/1999 7:25:00 PM
From: Jerry Whlan   of 160
 
.. they are the number one open source site, and all that code could make for some interesting transaction fees when people start to rent/sell/exchange/license/whatever their pieces of code.

The problem with this theory is that the majority of that code is covered by a form of open-source license. The economic model that the open-source license supports is paying once for the creation of the source, after that it is free. So, they could certainly try to sell it, or sell access to it, but the nature of the community would mean that there would be tens of free sites in competition almost immediately with just as good coverage, if not more.

PS, the largest such site, freshmeat.net, contains little to no actual code, just links to the actual sites with the code.
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