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Hi Quincy,

FreeCodeCamp's a great project. However, I always wondered about your long-term goals and "business model" (if there is one).

You're offering to integrate old Coursera courses into FCC. But what if you change your mind about openness further down the road ? Couldn't FreeCodeCamp become the Udacity/Coursera of tomorrow ?

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Our "business model" is to keep costs as low as possible and sell merchandise. We will never charge for our curriculum.

We have turned down all offers of funding specifically to avoid a situation where an investor could try and force us to do otherwise. We will remain free and open source.

I'm not him, but it looks like their curriculum is licensed in the github repo under "Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International Public License", which according to this:

https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/

Would suggest that anyone could take their curriculum and rehost it with attribution if they were to "go private".

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