Comment on How can self-hosted software make money without hurting the ecosystem?
wholookshere@lemmy.blahaj.zone 9 hours agoThats not what they were talking about.
I’m going to use netbird VPN as an example.
You can use it like tailacale on their infrusturcture. Pay them to host the controller, and get slots for your machines to connect in a peer connection.
Their entire stakc is also open source and self hostable. Have your own server to act as a controller? Host it yourself 100% free.
So if you dont wanna host it, yoy pay the dev to host it for you.
wltr@discuss.tchncs.de 6 hours ago
Ah, yes, it’s the same thing (or a similar one), but reversed. You’re a proprietary product, which is free if you’re willing to host it yourself.