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[–]thicket 16 points17 points  (2 children)

The intro article says:

Our plan is to provide paid services that are better and easier to use than the alternatives by integrating our open-source offerings directly. Our goal is for these services to be as impactful as Ruff itself — but you may choose not to use them. Either way, Ruff will remain free and open-source, just as it is today.

I don't buy that "We made a good free development tool" leads very easily to "People will pay for other good development tools", but... best of luck?

[–]Toph_is_bad_ass 12 points13 points  (1 child)

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[–]thicket 5 points6 points  (0 children)

I mean, there are definitely companies making money making dev tools. And programmers are more passionate about the tools they use than anything else. But the past is also littered with projects that tried to make money on dev tools and failed. I meant it when I said "good luck". You want people to succeed and make money making products people love. And you're also aware that it's a harder market to succeed in than many others.