I know some of you have gone complies FOSS, but I believe if the developer wants to make money from their apps, there’s noting wrong with it, as long as they are ethical. So what are your favorite non-foss apps?

  • CondeMg
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    32 years ago

    Steam. It is one of the few company’s that still has principles

  • @Nyoelle@beehaw.org
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    22 years ago

    Steam.

    A linux client that works, and actually gets fixes, improvements, and features, that is a lot.

    Davinci Resolve

    Really good video editor, and also, has Linux client.

  • hyperspace
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    12 years ago

    Wanting to make money from your app doesn’t prevent you from making it foss, therefore I have no favourite proprietary apps

  • @shermozle@lemmy.sdf.org
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    2 years ago

    Davinci Resolve is mind bogglingly good video editing software and the free (beer) version is all 90% of people need.

  • @cnnrduncan@beehaw.org
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    12 years ago

    I think you’ve got a bit of a misconception about FOSS software - you’re allowed to make money selling it, you just also have to provide the source code to any customers! A fair few FOSS apps have free versions on F-Droid but paid versions on the Play store, for example.

  • @nooneescapesthelaw@lemmy.ml
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    12 years ago

    Spotify is the only subscription I ever pay, even though I’m an avid pirate and I don’t have any qualms about pirating music, I love the Spotify algorithm so much, it introduces me to new music all the time which is something I love

    • Paying for it helps me pirate even more efficiently. I often leave 20+ hour playlists on ripping the music I want whilst off doing other things.

      I have compared the 320 mp3s I get from it with 320’s that I have bought using spek and they were literally identical and whilst having a flac is nice having money to pay my bills is nicer and the difference in sound quality really isn’t that noticeable without a proper system to play them through.

      • @flora_explora@beehaw.org
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        2 years ago

        Well, then you could just use xManager to get pirated Spotify premium. It just doesn’t let you download stuff but if you pirate them separately anyways, then this should work for you. Or are you literally directly ripping the music from Spotify??

        • @theskyisfalling@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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          2 years ago

          I pay for premium for my sister and niece on a family plan thing anyway so it isn’t like I would save any money by not using it as it is there and paid for regardless. I’m literally ripping the music from Spotify using soggfy.

          I use soulseek as well which is fine but a lot of idiots on there lock their files away which goes against the very nature of piracy imo, using this Spotify method is often easier to get some of the things I want and then I can tag them using my desired naming convention too rather than having to clean up other peoples messy as fuck tags.

          • @flora_explora@beehaw.org
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            12 years ago

            Ah OK, interesting! Well, if you have access to a family subscription this seems like the way to go :)

            I mostly use bandcamp + yt-dl to get music (or I actually buy it as well). But it is a bit tedious to import the files into my library…

            • I am also an avid band camp user and will buy as much as I can afford times being what they are though that is less and less so I have to prioritise what I want to pay for.

              The music I am into also releases a lot of things as vinyl only which is utter bullshit IMO so I will pirate the shit out of any of that I can get my hands on as I won’t pay for a giant piece of obsolete media that I then have no way to actually use xD

              • @flora_explora@beehaw.org
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                22 years ago

                Bandcamp is really my favorite site to buy or download music. I love just what you said about it, that I can prioritize what I want to pay for :)

    • @Landrin201@lemmy.ml
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      22 years ago

      Joplin is another FOSS alternative to Obsidian. I’ve been using it for years; it let’s you encrypt your notes in place so they can’t be read without the client having the password to access them.