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2link: https://openpath.chadwhitacre.com/2024/open-source-is-a-restaurant/
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5 - opensource
6author:
7 - Chad Whitacre
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9[[Chad Whitacre]] makes a great analogy around when/how software gets paid for, vs food.
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11> Open Source is a **restaurant**. At a restaurant, you eat your meal _first_, and _then_ you are expected to pay for it. Yes, we could dine and dash. But we don’t. When presented with a tab for a meal we have just eaten, we pay the tab.
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13* Open source is not a grocery: pay first, and then eat the food
14* Open source is not a soup kitchen: not donations or charity -- it's not someone else eating the meal, you ate it
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