@rl_dane
Coworking spaces are (IME) an awesome way to deal with that: you work remotely, yet you have people around you that provide the social contact you crave.

Of course that doesn't work if you need the social contact from your colleagues, but it does for me.
@amin

@pixx
Copying software costs nothing. Yes, writing software does. But to charge 100s of $CURRENCY for something you copy millions of times? Yuck.

I mean it's not a coincidence that most of today's billionaires made their money doing software.
@amin @rl_dane @ivanmarkov @clayton @orbitalmartian @kabel42

@pixx
I don't think the expectation of free support is valid. If someone asks for support on a public forum, I help them if and when I have time or let someone else handle it when not. If someone sends me private email, I send information on the public forum as well as a quote for paid private support.

Nobody should feel forced to do anything just because they happen to do open source.

@pixx
Okay, yes. To me, open core is not open source, and a company dropping a free 'community version' but not taking patches for that one nor even providing a basic version of support might as well just do shareware instead.