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That’s mostly different.

The point is, there are large number of users, if each user pays a small amount to the platform, they won’t notice it, yet it accumulates to a maintenance fee.

Paying a maintenance fee makes sense, regardless of how you label it. The entirely free software has problems and may not be sustainable.



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