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I agree with you entirely, but how would you build a business around a library? It's one of the side effects of the (amazing) open source ecosystem we have these days that installing some kind of paid-for package isn't really that easy. Nor is preventing widespread pirating/reverse engineering of your library if it is successful.

Although it's wildly inefficient, a SAAS offering solves those problems.



I bought this library a few years ago: https://www.libxl.com/purchase.html

I don't know how profitable the business is, but if the problem is popular enough it should be possible to make money?

Also, when you are selling to businesses, piracy isn't that big of an issue.




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