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Unity’s new “per-install” pricing enrages the game development community (arstechnica.com)

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Fees of up to $0.20 per install threaten to upend large chunks of the industry.

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Being licensed as free software (libre) just means users have the freedom to fork and continue without the copyright owner (to the degree permitted by the license).

The same bad incentives still exist but they are mitigated when devs know competition can sprout out of their bad actions.