Software vs Capitalism

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Computer Market Failure

The production of good software is incompatible with profit motives.

e.g. Dropbox vs Syncthing

e.g. Apple's app store terms are incompatible with the GPL, in that they impose restrictions on redistribution. This is one of the reasons for aspell's unpopularity relative to hunspell, despite technical superiority (Aspell and Hunspell: A Tale of Two Spell Checkers)