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I see the merits of open sourcing DarwinMail. It would open up the platform to develop on it from people all over the world. They would fix bugs for themselves and others and perhaps write mini-features. However, if I open source this code, I may never be able to make any profit on this tool I have spent so much time building :( How will I be able to pay my bills?

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> How will I be able to pay my bills?

That's why I mentioned the OSS + hosted version. It would allow to be more open while still making money on the hosted version. Those who are very concerned about privacy can self-host, and those who think self-hosting is too hard (that's many people) can pay to use your hosted version.

See Ghost as a success story that works that way:

https://blog.ghost.org/5/

Thank you for the follow-up.

That's quite an interesting concept! It would alleviate users concerns :)

I like it!

Ghost has done very well in recent years. I will read up on this.

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