That's true. Will epochtalk be available for free? I guess not, given the >350k dev costs. So one should price licenses competitively and sell only for bitcoins..
The costs are expected to be closer to $1 million in the end, $350k has been spent to date.
The software will be entirely free and open source, released under the MIT license just like Bitcoin Core.
So you are telling me someone would pay 1$ million dollar just to develop a forum & at the end of the day that forum will be Free & Open source ? Like seriously ? do you really belieave that because I don't

It just dosen't make any sense