Alt: proprietary software devs trying to live off their work as their primary income source while still allowing people to use their product for free
I swear, lemmy users have proven to be so entitled. Just don’t buy it.
As an end-user I believe I am entitled to the freedom to use, modify, and share the software I use. If your business model is incompatible with my values I won’t support you, simple as. I don’t have any problem monetarily supporting developers but not if they disagree with my principles.
I’m pretty sure I’ve seen this exact argument made against ad-blockers, too.
You do have the freedom to modify the proprietary binary you’re being given. You just can’t distribute your modifications.
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Irrelevant to the point I’m making. Whether something is open source or not does not impact your freedom to modify it, just the freedom to distribute your modifications.
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Reality: what you pay goes more to monetization than the user experience
Free as in?
Free as in price, wdym?
freedom
If it spies on me, if it shows me ads, then it’s not free.
Yeah, I think a lot of the people who are against are the ones who don’t like the ad-removal model, because you are paying to remove ads on an app that uses a platform whose foundation is built against ads and tracking. The subscription model or one-time payment for life is fair IMO; people are free to support the dev (and please support the lemmy devs and instance admins too!). It’s the ads (and tracking that come with it) that’s kinda weird.
As if the majority of you will ever donate to a FOSS dev. This is one of the reasons I went into open source hardware instead. At least you can’t easily copy a PCB, you have to build your own or buy mine. I’m not a corporation. I’m a dude living in the ghettos of Baltimore trying to do my hustle and live.
As if the majority of you will ever donate to a FOSS dev
With love from a user of aforementioned minority
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Tindie.com is where I’m at. Most products there are open source.
That’s p interesting and something I could see myself doing.
How’s the revenue steam for you?
lemmy becoming as whiney and as entitled as reddit users
Considering most lemmy users were literally the whiniest and most entitled reddit users that got run off the platform, it shouldn’t surprise anybody.
I say this knowing full well that I am one of that whiny reddit users that came to lemmy
This is why we can’t have nice things.
Things cost money.
Boo hoo really.
“If you don’t work for me for free, I am going to insult you”
And before anyone even decides to reply to this, donate something to FOSS projects you like, rather than throw anger at me. Every little bit helps
Free doesn’t mean gratis
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My God this is the whiniest post I’ve seen on the topic yet.
Software that will one day stop being supported because people will only use FOSS apps. They won’t contribute in terms of feedback (that helps improve User Experience and as a result improve the use of that app) or in terms of donation.
They will only use it and roam around with an air of superiority about using FOSS over proprietary.
This is why FOSS has issues. Gatekeepers who won’t do shit to contribute, but only make fun of and call out people who actually do some shit.
Holy shit. I might need to take a week off Lemmy or something. Y’all need to learn more about how software dev works. Insane response.
I make open source software; for several years it was completely foss and it never managed to keep the lights on on its own. When we started adding paid features (still open, but not free), it didn’t go well with the community at all.
Folks would suggest all sorts of business models which always boiled down to “do make money from it, just not from me”.
Most people who make FOSS full time that people interact with (Linux, Python, Git, Node.js etc) work at large tech companies where their work is being subsidized.
Solo devs don’t have that luxury, their income is directly tied to their product. They don’t have the same privileges.
It baffles me how much people get shit twisted again and again.
You clearly haven’t looked at the options and feature set of sync. It would be the muscular bodybuilder in this analogy.
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do donate then ya twats
This is the way. Either by money or other types of contributions.
Fucking cry about it.
stop crying
A bad take if I’ve ever seen one.
Trash smugposting bro
“i want free shit waaa waaa” is all i see in these self righteous posts
as someone who regularily donates to the FOSS projects that I use, I can tell you it is not about the money. It’s about the freedom that FOSD brings
